People

Professor Tim Allen

Professor of Development Anthropology 
Director of the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa

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Dr Lydia Assouad

Assistant Professor in Development Management
(On leave from January 2024 to June 2025)

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Professor Catherine Boone 

Professor of Comparative Politics and African Political Economy
(Sabbatical 2024/25)

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Professor Ernestina Coast 

Professor of Health and International Development
Programme Co-Director, Health and International Development

Keywords: Sexual and Reproductive Health, Rights and Justice (SRHRJ), Gender, Evidence and Data

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Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Professor of the Political Economy of Development

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Dr Tasha Fairfield

Associate Professor in Development Studies

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Professor Tim Forsyth

Professor of Environment and Development
Head of Department

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Dr Arjan Gjonça

Associate Professor of Demography 

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Professor Stuart Gordon 

Professor (Education) in Managing Humanitarianism
Programme Director, International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies


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Dr Duncan Green

Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam UK, and Professor in Practice

Keywords: Influencing, Advocacy, NGOs

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Professor Elliott Green

Professor in Development Studies
Programme Co-Director, Development Management

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Dr Tine Hanrieder

Associate Professor in Health and International Development
Programme Co-Director, Health and International Development

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Professor Kathryn Hochstetler

Professor of International Development
(Sabbatical 2024/25)

Keywords: Energy Transition, Climate Change, Emerging Powers

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Dr Myfanwy James

Assistant Professor in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies

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Professor Naila Kabeer 

Professor of Gender and Development 

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Dr Sohini Kar

Associate Professor International Development 

Keywords: Economic Anthropology, Financialization, Poverty, Gender, South Asia

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Professor David Keen

Professor of Conflict Studies

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Professor Tiziana Leone 

Professor in Health and International Development
Deputy Head of Department

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Professor David Lewis 

Professor of Anthropology and Development
(Sabbatical 2024/25)

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Professor Shirin Madon

Professor in ICTs and Socio-Economic Development

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Dr Laura Mann

Associate Professor International Development 

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Professor Kate Meagher

Professor in Development Studies

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Dr Philipa Mladovsky

Associate Professor in International Development
Programme Co-Director, Health and International Development

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Dr Joana Naritomi 

Associate Professor Development Economics

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Professor James Putzel

Professor of Development Studies
Programme Director, Development Studies

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Dr Sandra Sequeira

Associate Professor in Development Economics
Programme Co-Director, Economic Policy for International Development

Keywords: Labor, Migration, Political Economy, Consumer Behavior


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Professor Ken Shadlen 

Professor of Development Studies

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Dr Mahvish Shami

Assistant Professor in Development Studies
Programme Co-Director, Development Management

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Dr Rajesh Venugopal

Associate Professor
(Sabbatical 2024/25)

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Professor Robert Wade 

Professor of Political Economy and Development

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Dr Diana Weinhold

Associate Professor in Development Economics
Programme Co-Director, Economic Policy for International Development

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Dr Carolin Dieterle

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow 

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Tom Kirk

LSE Fellow

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Dr Stephanie Levy

Guest Lecturer

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Dr Jon Lunn

Guest Teacher

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Dr Laura Morris

LSE Fellow 

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Dr Jerome Roos

LSE Fellow 

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Dr Greta Seibel

LSE Fellow 

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Dr BooKang Seol

LSE Fellow 

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Joe Strong

Guest teacher

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Jennifer Melvin 

LSE Fellow

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Dr Serdar Altay

Visiting Fellow

Dr. Serdar Altay is  Associate Professor in the Department of Economics at Istanbul Technical University. With a robust background in international trade, investment, and development, he brings a wealth of experience from both practical and academic perspectives. Previously, Dr. Altay has held pivotal roles within the Turkish government, including trade negotiator and director for sustainable investment promotion. His expertise extends to U.S. think tanks focused on transatlantic economic cooperation and academia, where he excels in teaching and researching trade, finance, statistics and regional/European integration.

Dr. Altay’s recent research delves into the interconnectedness of international trade and investment with industrial and sustainable development, alongside global and regional governance. His published works cover topics such as multilateralism and the trade regime, deep trade agreements, Turkey's commercial engagement with the EU and the United States, and the political-economic ramifications of modernizing the Customs Union between the EU and Turkey.

Dr. Altay holds a PhD in International Studies from Trento University and in Economics and Social Sciences from Kassel University. He also earned an MA in International Political Economy from Warwick University and a BSc in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University.

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Professor Alaka Basu

Visiting Senior Fellow

Alaka Basu is a Social Demographer and has published widely in the areas of reproductive health, gender and development, child health, the interface of fiction and the politics of population policy. 

She served on the governing boards of the Population Association of America, the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, the Population Council and the Population Reference Bureau, was the chair of the IUSSP Scientific Committee on Anthropological Demography, a member of the Committees on Reproductive Health and on Population Projections of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and a member of the Lancet-Guttmacher Commission on Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights.

She is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Population and Development Review, Genealogy, and The Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, and the series editor of the Policy Briefs produced by the Sociology of Development section of the American Sociological Association.

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Professor Radhika Desai

Visiting Fellow

Political Economist and Political Scientist, Radhika Desai proposed geopolitical economy as a Marxist analysis of the international relations of the capitalist world that is historical, integrates the ‘political’ and the ‘economic’, class and nation, and imperialism and anti-imperialism in a single framework that is capable of anticipating and explaining the rise of the multipolar world. She also writes about US, UK and Indian politics and political economy, the dollar system and its contradictions, about Marx’s analysis of capitalism, the politics of right and left, including fascism, nationalism and other topics. Her journalism and commentary appear on The Guardian, The Hindu, Frontline, The Winnipeg Free Press, Canadian Dimension, China Global Television Network (CGTN), RT, Global Times, the Valdai Discussion Club, You Tube and other outlets, She is host of the popular You Tube show Geopolitical Economy Hour.

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Dr Joseph Hanlon

Visiting Senior Fellow

Journalist and social scientist and Senior Lecturer in Development Policy and Practice

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Dr Rishita Nandagiri 

Visiting Fellow

Dr Rishita Nandagiri (she/her) is an LSE Visiting Fellow (11/2022 to 11/2025). She is a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, King’s College London. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on gender, abortion and reproductive (in)justices in the Global South; interrogating how power and politics manifest and are wielded at micro, meso, and macro levels. She has previously held postdoctoral positions at LSE, including an ESRC postdoctoral fellowship (2020-2021). She serves on the IUSSP Abortion Research Panel, is an editorial advisory board member of BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, and co-convenes the DSA Women & Development Study Group.

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Duncan Green

Professor in Practice
Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam UK

Keywords: Influencing, Advocacy, NGOs

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Kate Gilmore

Visiting Professor in Practice
Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations

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Mark Lowcock

Visiting Professor in Practice
Permanent Secretary for the Department for International Development between 9 June 2011 and 7 July 2017, and, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator between 2017 and 2021

Professor David Luke

Professor in Practice and Strategic Director
Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa

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Dr Madhuri Agarwal

Guest Teacher

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Professor E A (Teddy) Brett

Emeritus Professor of International Development

Professor Brett has been involved in research, teaching and practice in Development since the 1960s, first in South Africa at Witwatersrand University, then in Uganda at Makerere University in the 1960s and 1970s, and at Sussex University and the Institute of Development Studies from 1967 to 1992. He joined the Development Studies Institute, now Department of International Development at the LSE in 1993, and was a Visiting Fellow at Witwatersrand University from 2001 to 2005. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the LSE in 1966, and has published extensively on African Political Economy, with special reference to Uganda and Zimbabwe, on International Political Economy, Civic Institutions and Development Theory, and participated in research and consultancy projects sponsored by the World Bank, DFID, and DANIDA. 

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Allison Benson Hernandez

Allison received her PhD from the London School of Economics in 2020. Her Bachelor and Master Degrees are in Economics, from Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. Her dissertation was titled “Sources of financial, social and political capital in rural Colombia”. Her research interests include Political Economy, Rural Development, Inequality, Social Policy, Peace Building. She relies on both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies.

Chao-Yo Cheng

Chao-yo Cheng is a Lecturer in Quantitative Social Research at Birkbeck, University of London. He has a PhD in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He applies various quantitative and qualitative methods to address a range of topics in the political economy of institutions and development. His research focuses on unpacking the institutional and policy foundations of nation-state building and socioeconomic development in multi-ethnic societies. 

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Professor Tim Dyson

Emeritus Professor of Population Studies

Tim Dyson is Emeritus Professor of Population Studies. He has been a Fellow of the British Academy since 2001 and has held visiting positions at the Australian National University in Canberra, the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai, and the American University of Beirut. In 1997 he was the lead speaker at the Oxford Farming Conference, and in 2015 he delivered the keynote address at the United Nations Commission on Population and Development in New York. Much of his research has involved studying aggregate demographic processes. 

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Francisco Ferreira

Francisco H. G. Ferreira is the Amartya Sen Professor of Inequality Studies and Director of the International Inequalities Institute at the London School of Economics. Francisco is an economist working on the measurement, causes and consequences of inequality and poverty, with an emphasis on developing countries in general and Latin America in particular. Some of his recent work has focused on the definition and measurement of inequality of opportunity. 

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Annie Kuse

Annie is currently working on research that explores the connections between the informal economy and revolution in North Africa. She received her MSc in Anthropology and Development from the LSE in 2020, and her undergraduate degree in Anthropology and Political Science from the University of Notre Dame in 2017.  

Elizabeth Ngutuku

Elizabeth Ngutuku is a research fellow at the Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa. She holds a PhD in Development Studies from the International Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her PhD research explored children’s complex lived experience of poverty and vulnerability in Kenya. Eliza has over 20 years of experience, working on issues of children and youth in the Eastern Africa region, and her primary focus is on child poverty & vulnerability, social protection, youth activism, sexual and reproductive health & rights, and young people’s experience in conflict situations. Elizabeth speaks Swahili and English. 

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Reece Sisto 

Reece is currently researching the relationship between liberalism and right- and left-wing revolutions in Chile and Bolivia. Before receiving his MSc in Development Studies from the LSE in 2020, Reece was conducting research on the triangular relationship between armed conflict, peace-building, and LGBTQ+ hate crimes as a Fulbright scholar in Bogotá, Colombia. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Urban Studies in 2018. 

James Walters 

Dr James Walters is founding director of the LSE Faith Centre which works to promote religious understanding and interfaith leadership among the LSE’s global student body, in government and to the wider public. He is also a Senior Lecturer in the LSE Marshall Institute and Chaplain to the School. He works with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to promote diplomatic engagement with religious communities and contributes to several interfaith initiatives in the Middle East. He has published a number of books including Baudrillard and Theology, Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations, Religious Imaginations and Global Transitions and Loving Your Neighbour in an Age of Religious Conflict. He was educated at Cambridge University and ordained priest in the Church of England in 2008 within which he is now a canon of Chichester Cathedral and represents universities on the General Synod, the Church’s governing body.

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MSc Programme Manager

Course Administrator: MSc Development Management  

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MSc course Administrator: MSc Health and International Development, and MSc International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies

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MSc Course Administrator, MSc Economic Policy for International Developmen

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Camilo Acero Vargas

Supervisors: Professor Catherine Boone and Professor Jean-Paul Faguet          

Research interests: Inequality, land politics, political economy of agrarian development, illicit economies, Latin America

Contact: c.acero-vargas@lse.ac.uk

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Rahma Ahmed            

Supervisors: Dr Sandra Sequeira, Dr Diana Weinhold      

Research interests: Inequality; Political Economy; Development Economics; Comparative Politics; Development; Sub-Saharan Africa; Migration

Contact: r.s.ahmed@lse.ac.uk 

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Faris Al-Sulayman

Supervisors: Professor Kathryn Hochstetler, Dr Steffen Hertog

Research interests: Political Economy of Development, State Capitalism, State-owned Enterprises, the Political Economy of Renewable Energy, Middle East and North Africa, the GCC states, Green Industrial Policy

Contact: F.Al-Sulayman@lse.ac.uk

Twitter: @FarisAlSulayman

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Sophia Anders

Supervisor: Professor Jean Paul Faguet

Research interests: Local Democracy, Participation, Eurasia

Contact: S.M.Anders@lse.ac.uk

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Lucas D. Arce   

Supervisor: Professor Ken Shadlen 

Research interests: International political economy, upgrading and innovation, global value chains, trade, business and corporate strategy, environment, Latin America

Contact: L.D.Arce@lse.ac.uk
Twitter:@larce26 

Ritika Arora             

Supervisor: Dr Rajesh Venugopal           

Research interests: Education; Politics; Nationalism; Religious Conflict; South Asia; Political Psychology; Transparency and Accountability; Electoral Systems in Divided Societies; Vote-Bank Politics; Multiculturalism; Communalism

Contact: R.P.Arora@lse.ac.uk
Twitter: @RitikaAurora  

Arbie Baguios

Supervisor: Professor James Putzel

Research interests: Refugee economy; anthropology of economy; institutions; emergence; capitalism and displacement; market disembeddedness; Karl Polanyi

Contact: a.baguios@lse.ac.uk

Parth Bhatia

Supervisor: Professor Kathryn Hochstetler

Research Interests: Energy Transition; India; Green Industrial Policy; Socio-Technical Transitions; Climate Policy and Law; Net Zero

Contact: P.Bhatia6@lse.ac.uk 

Twitter: @parthbhatia92

Charlotte Brown

Supervisor: Professor Tim Allen, Professor David Lewis, Dr Liz Storer (QMUL)

Research Interests: Migration, Humanitarianism, Gender, Uganda

Contact: c.brown8@lse.ac.uk 

Twitter: @C_L_V_B

Javiera Caceres

Supervisors: Professor Ken Shadlen, Dr Laura Mann

Contact: j.p.caceres@lse.ac.uk

Chiara Chiavaroli

Supervisors: Dr Tiziana Leone, Professor Tim Forsyth

Research interests: Environmental justice, Sexual and reproductive health, Gender, Environmental conflicts, Latin America

Contact: C.Chiavaroli@lse.ac.uk

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Tin Hinane El Kadi 

Supervisors: Professor James Putzel and Dr Laura Mann

Research interests: Political Economy of Development, Digital Divide, Technology Transfers, Innovation Policy, China in Africa/MENA

Contact: T.El-Kadi@lse.ac.uk

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Hosna Jahan

Supervisor: Professor Naila Kabeer

Research interests: Gender and economic development, capability approach, microfinance, political Islam, poverty, political economy of development

Contact: H.Jahan@lse.ac.uk

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Pauline Jerrentrup

Supervisor: Professor Naila Kabeer

Contact: p.j.jerrentrup@lse.ac.uk

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Mina Kozluca

Supervisor: Dr Kate Meagher

Research Interests: Agrarian political economy; Rural development; Political economy of global value chains; Capital-labour relations; Rural labour migration; Informality;  Labour regimes

Contact: m.kozluca@lse.ac.uk

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Sophie Legros

Supervisor: Professor Naila Kabeer, Professor Wendy Sigle

Research Interests: Inequality; Gender and Development; Social Norms; Mixed Methods; Urban Informality; Gendered Peace-Building; Latin America

Contact: s.c.legros@lse.ac.uk

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Jorich Johann Loubser

Supervisor: Professor James Putzel

Research interests: State-Capital Relations, Political Economy of Development, Mining, African Political Economy, Southern Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, African Studies, Local Content Policy, Local Ownership Policies, Taxation, Transnational Companies (TNCs) and the African State. 

Contact: j.h.loubser@lse.ac.uk

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Richard Mallett

Supervisor: Dr Kate Meagher

Contact: r.mallett1@lse.ac.uk

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Bincy Mathew

Supervisor: Dr Sohini Kar, Dr Philipa Mladovsky

Contact: B.Mathew@lse.ac.uk

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Aoife McCullough

Supervisors: Rajesh Venugopal, Kate Meagher

Advisor: Rahmane Idrissa

Research interests: The War on Terror, militarisation, state legitimacy, conflict, state formation

Contact: a.j.mccullough@lse.ac.uk 

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Eduardo Mercadante

Supervisor: Professor Ken Shadlen

Contact: e.mercadante-santino@lse.ac.uk

Research interests: Intellectual property; Patent prosecution; Patent offices; Pharmaceuticals; Developing countries

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Aisha Modibo

Supervisor: Dr Kate Meagher

Contact: a.modibo@lse.ac.uk

Research interests: Informal social protection, Informal workers, Old age poverty, Poverty, Development, Nigeria, Sub-Saharan Africa

Michael Mugisha              

Supervisors: Professor James Putzel, Professor Catherine Boone

Contact: m.mugisha@lse.ac.uk

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Tony Neil

Supervisors: Professor Tim Forsyth, Dr Rajesh Venugopal

Contact: a.r.neil@lse.ac.uk

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Evan Oliner

Supervisors: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet, Dr Elliott Green

Contact: e.oliner@lse.ac.uk

Claudia Rodriguez Castellanos

Supervisor: Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Research interests: Conflict, illicit economies, peace building, mixed methods

Contact: c.j.rodriguez-castellanos@lse.ac.uk

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Gijs van Selm

Supervisor: Professor Stuart Gordon, Professor David Lewis

Research interests: Power inequalities, Locally-led Aid; NGOs; humanitarian-development-peace nexus

Contact: g.m.van-selm@lse.ac.uk

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Ciara Silke 

Supervisor: Dr Elliott Green  

Research interests: Shock responsive basic services, internal displacement, humanitarian, Ethiopia. 

Contact: C.C.Silke@lse.ac.uk

Harshita Sinha

Supervisors: Professor Naila Kabeer, Dr Rajesh Venugopal  

Research interests: Gender, migration, informal labour markets, marginal communities, South Asia

Contact: h.sinha@lse.ac.uk

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