Professor Diane Perrons

Commission Co-Director

Diane Perrons is Director of the Gender Institute and Professor of Economic Geography and Gender Studies. Her research focuses on the gender dimensions of economic inequality and the social and spatial implications of economic change paying particular attention economic crises, austerity and socially sustainable recovery. She is currently co-directing the LSE Commission on Gender, Inequality and Power. 

Professor Nicola Lacey

Commission Co-Director

Nicola Lacey is School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy, attached to the Departments of Law and Social Policy and to the Gender Institute. Her research is in criminal law and criminal justice, with a particular focus on comparative and historical scholarship.  Nicola also has research interests in legal and social theory, in feminist analysis of law, in law and literature, and in biography.

Scarlett Harris

Scarlet is the TUC's Women's Equality Officer, based in the Equality and Employment Rights Department.

Professor Susan Himmelweit

Susan Himmelweit is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the Open University and she is a feminist economist. 

Professor Naila Kabeer

Naila Kabeer is Professor of Gender and Development at the Gender Institute.

Professor Alan Manning

Alan Manning is Professor of Economics in the Department of Economics at the LSE and Director of the Community Programme at the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE. 

Dr Eva Neitzert

Eva is Deputy CEO at the Fawcett Society, one of the UK’s leading campaign organisations for gender equality.

Dr Ania Plomien

Ania Plomien is Assistant Professor in Gender and Social Science at the Gender Institute.

Professor Kate Jenkins

Kate Jenkins is Vice Chair of the LSE Court of Governors and Visiting Professor in the Government Department at the LSE.

Professor Joni Lovenduski

Joni Lovenduski FBA, AcSS is Anniversary Professor of Politics at Birkbeck College, University of London where she also directs the Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life. 

Dr Rainbow Murray

Rainbow Murray is Reader in Politics at Queen Mary University of London and a Visiting Fellow in the Department of Government at the LSE.

Professor Anne Phillips

Anne Phillips is the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government. 

Saphieh Ashtiany

Saphieh Ashtiany is Principal of Ashtiany Associates, Visiting Professorial Fellow Queen Mary University of London and formerly Partner, Head of Employment, Nabarro LLP

Shami Chakrabarti

Shami Chakrabarti is the Director of Liberty (The National Council for Civil Liberties).

The Hon. Dame Linda Dobbs

Linda Dobbs DBE was a High Court judge in England and Wales from 2004 to 2013. 

Sir Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer is a British barrister, appointed Queen's Counsel in 2002, former DPP and was elected to Parliament in 2015.

Dr Anita Biressi

Anita Biressi is Reader in Media Cultures in the Department of Media, Culture and Language at the University of Roehampton, London.

Dr Cynthia Carter

Cynthia Carter is a Senior Lecturer in the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University.

Professor Nick Couldry

Nick Couldry is Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE

Professor Diane Negra

Diane Negra is Professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture and Head of Film Studies at University College Dublin.

Dr Shani Orgad

Shani Orgad is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communications and LSE Adviser to Women Students.

Dr Sadie Wearing

Sadie Wearing is a Lecturer in Gender Theory, Culture and Media at the Gender Institute.

Professor Christine Chinkin

Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the LSE and a barrister, a member of Matrix Chambers.

Caroline Criado-Perez

Caroline Criado-Perez is a freelance journalist and feminist campaigner. She is co-founder of The Women's Room and she led the campaign to keep women on banknotes.

Pamela DeLargy

Pamela DeLargy is currently Special Advisor to the U.N. Special Representative for Migration.

Purna Sen

Purna Sen is Deputy Director of the Institute of Public Affairs at the LSE, Chair of the board of the Kaleidoscope Trust, a member of the Board of RISE (a domestic violence service provider) and an Advisor to Justice for Gay Africans.

Harriet Spicer

Harriet Spicer is a member of Council at the LSE.

Clare L. English

Claire is currently undertaking her PhD at the University of Leicester in the School of Management. She completed her MSc Gender, Development and Globalisation at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2010. She completed her BA in Australia at Griffith University where she studied International and Asian Studies majoring in Japanese Language.

She has previously undertaken research work for the x:talk project compiling interviews with sexworkers about the impact of legislative change on workplace safety. She is working on the Commission's Economic Research with Julia Hartviksen. 

Research Interests:

Claire’s research explores the workings of gender and race within the global/transnational organisations and networks that characterise migrant solidarity activism in the UK and Europe, working particularly at the French/British border of Calais. 

Her project will map the gendered and racial dynamics of these organisational models and raise crucial questions regarding the efficacy of autonomous and post-representational organisational forms within a transnational framework; and their potential for offering genuinely emancipatory models through which to enact social change. 

Her most recent publication is:

English, C. (2014) ‘Bordering on reproducing the state: migrant solidarity collectives and constructions of the Other in safer spaces’ in Price, S. and Sanz Sabido, R. (2014) editors, Contemporary Protest and the Legacy of Dissent, London: Rowman & Littlefield.

Camille Joly

Camille Joly is a researcher for the LSE Commission on Gender, Inequality and Power, assisting with the law section of the report to the Commission. She is doctoral candidate at the faculty of law at Queen Mary University. Her research interests include women in the legal profession and working time. Camille is a trustee of the charity For a Child's Smile. She is a former Allen & Overy corporate associate.  

Haifa Rashed

Haifa Rashed is a Research Associate with the University of London’s Human Rights Consortium. Her research interests include genocide, minority rights, decolonisation and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She holds an MA (with distinction) in Understanding and Securing Human Rights from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.

She started her career managing an MP’s constituency office and has since worked for a variety of non-governmental organisations in the UK, Spain and Switzerland, including her most recent position in international advocacy on the Human Rights and Refugees programme at the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva. 

Nicole Shephard

Nicole Shephard (@kilolo_) is a PhD candidate at the LSE Gender Institute and a research assistant on the Gender and Media/Culture stream of the Commission on Gender, Inequality and Power. Her work for the commission is motivated by an interest in the multifaceted nature of inequality in public life, cultural production, and media representation, as well as an intersectional analysis of the power relations cutting across media/culture and the political, economic, and legal spheres. 

Nicole's doctoral research conceptually explores the becoming of transnational subjects. Under the title Beyond Transnationality: A Queer Intersectional Approach to Transnational Subjects, her project engages with transnationalism, intersectional theory, queer theory, material/discursive approaches to subject formation, as well as feminist, postcolonial and queer interventions into migration research. Her broader research interests include gender theory, particularly the gender/tech nexus, queer theory, inter(post?)-disciplinarity, computational culture, and the intersections thereof. She holds an MSc in International Development from Bristol University and a BA in Social Work and Policy with a minor in Social Anthropology from University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Her professional background is in Information Technology and Human Resources.