Seeta Persaud is Managing Editor of the Journal, Nations and Nationalism, published on behalf of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) in partnership with LSE IDEAS.  She was also, for several years, the Administrator of ASEN.

Prior to this she was Centre Manager of the now dissolved Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa (CREFSA), established at LSE in 1990 under the directorship of Jonathan Leape, as an initiative of the Commonwealth Heads of Government to support the democratic transition in South Africa.

When she first began working at LSE she was Departmental Manager of the Sociology Department under the convenership of Anthony D. Smith.