Visiting Fellows

Duncan Clark, OBE, is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics; and a former Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He previously served as Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in China, and was awarded an OBE in 2013 for services to UK-China trade and investment. Founder, investor and leading advisor on China’s dynamic technology and consumer sectors, Duncan is author of Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built, which has been shortlisted for the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2016. Duncan has been based in China since 1994. He founded BDA China, the leading investment advisory firm which today comprises almost 100 professionals in Beijing. Duncan is also a cofounder or early stage investor of a number of technology ventures including AppAnnie, Student.com and Radish Fiction. He is an independent director of Bangkok Bank (China), a Trustee of the Asia Society in New York and an advisory board member of WildAid and the Digital Communication Fund of Pictet et Cie. 

Pamela DeLargy is a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics in the area of migration and refugee research. She is currently Special Advisor to the U.N. Special Representative for Migration and works with Peter Sutherland, the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for International Migration and Professor in Practice at the IGA. She is a specialist on the ‘horn of Africa’ and has worked for two decades to ensure that gender is considered seriously in UN humanitarian and development assistance programmes. She was the former representative in Sudan for the United Nations Population Fund from 2010-14.

Guillermo Felices is a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research interests and contributions are in global financial issues, emerging markets, and monetary policy. He has over 15 years of experience in both the financial industry and policy making. Over the last ten years he has held senior roles in economic research and multi-asset strategy at global investment banks. In his latest role he was Head of Asset Allocation Research, Europe at Barclays. Guillermo also has extensive experience in policy making and academic research. He was a Senior Economist at the Bank of England (2002-2007) and holds a PhD in Economics with specialisation in macroeconomics and monetary policy from New York University. His work has been published in refereed journals and books and he featured regularly in the global financial media (FT, The Economist, WSJ, Bloomberg, CNBC).

Mark Florman is a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics. He was founder of the merchant banking group Maizels Westerberg and has since founded a number of businesses in the technology, advisory, financial services and investment sectors. He was Managing Director of the private equity firm Doughty Hanson, Chair of LM Glasfiber (the global renewable energy group) and started the African venture capital firm 8 Miles LLP with Bob Geldof. He has been active in policy ideas and campaigns related to social mobility and poverty fighting in the UK and across the world. He co-founded the Centre for Social Justice, the Early Intervention Foundation and B Labs (UK). He was CEO of BVCA for two and a half years. He is CEO of Time Partners, advising venture capital firms and governments on growth, markets and regulation. In March 2015 he was appointed to the Board of the BBC Trust, and is the Trustee for England. Mark was a member of the G8 Social Impact Investment Task Force in 2014, and was appointed to the Triennial Review of the Big Lottery Fund by the UK Cabinet Office in the same year. Mark is a leading authority on some of the world’s most entrenched socio-economic challenges, speaking widely on reforms that must be made to drive improved governance and productivity, and always championing the power and social impact of good business. He is the author of the External Rate of Return with the London School of Economics and speaks on the Future of Business.

Jawad Iqbal is a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics. He is a senior executive and editor in BBC News. As editor, insight and analysis, he had overall editorial responsibility for commissioning and overseeing in- depth explanation and analysis of major national and international news events for BBC News Online. Prior to this, he was the multimedia editor for BBC News, chairing the daily editorial news conference, ensuring clarity in terms of the overall editorial approach to the main news events, and leading teams through difficult and challenging on-the-day editorial decisions. He has occupied a number of other senior editorial positions on the BBC's national and international news channels, as well as editing the flagship television news bulletins. Jawad has extensive experience of management and leadership, having been at senior management level in BBC News for more than a decade. His main interests are international affairs, global policy and politics.

Elina Ribakova is a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is responsible for a number of policy initiatives, ranging from global financial architecture to migration. She has over 15 years of experience in both the financial industry and policy making. Over the last seven years she held senior roles in economic research and strategy at a hedge fund, an institutional real asset manager, and a large international bank. Prior to moving to the financial industry, Elina worked as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (1999 - 2008). She is a graduate of the University of Warwick and now lectures on international macroeconomics with policy and finance applications.

Torsten Thiele  is a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics. His research area is ocean and Arctic governance solutions. Founder of the Global Ocean Trust and Vice-President of the Institut Choiseul, Torsten Thiele had a long career in infrastructure finance in the City of London, where he was Head of Telecom Project Finance for Investec Bank plc till 2013. He holds graduate degrees in economics and in law from Bonn University, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. He returned to Harvard University as a 2014 Advanced Leadership Fellow.

Agnieszka Wysokińska is a Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Global Affairs at the London School of Economics; and an assistant professor at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management. She received her PhD in Economics from the European University Institute in September 2011. She held a visiting position at University College London in 2014-2015. She is interested in the role that institutions and culture play in economic development. Combining two quasi-experiments from Polish history, the 19th century division and Stalin's forced migrations after World War II, her research sheds light on the mechanism through which history matters for economic development. Effects are identified even after two centuries from the end of the "experiment" of partition and despite half a century of distortionary experience from communism. Her other research interests include the economics of education, microeconometrics, and policy evaluation methods.