People

Michael Cox is Founding Co-Director of LSE IDEAS. He has also acted as Academic Director  of  both  the LSE/PKU Summer School and of the Executive Summer School. In 2011 he launched a new Executive Masters in International Strategy and Diplomacy designed to teach senior foreign policy practitioners. 

John Collins is Executive Director of the IDPP at LSE IDEAS. His research focuses on the history of international drug control. He edited the 2012 LSE IDEAS Report Governing the Global Drug Wars.

Alexander Soderholm is the Policy Associate of the IDPP. He completed an MSc in International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies at the LSE in 2015. Upon finishing his studies, he interned for the UNODC in Tehran, having previously worked in a number of developing countries. His research focuses on the intersection between drugs and development, specifically on scaling up harm reduction in the Middle East.

Michael Shiner is Head of Teaching for the Project. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Policy at LSE. Michael has published widely around the place and meaning of illicit drug use in late industrial societies, including patterns of use and desistance; drug law enforcement; and the politics of drug control. He is author of Drug Use and Social Change: The Distortion of History. 

Ana Linda Solano  is an IDPP Visiting Fellow studying illicit financial flows. She is a Colombian Lawyer who currently serves as an Advisor to the Prosecutor General in matters of investigation of criminal economies and asset forfeiture, towards a post-conflict scenario, and related themes. She brings a particular expertise in design and management of specialised investigation units (Judicial Police) and designing and implementation of new models of criminal investigation as well as experience in managing training programs for prosecutors and investigators.

Mark Shaw is an IDPP Visiting Senior Fellow. He is Director of the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime, a global policy and practitioner network based in Geneva. He is also the National Research Foundation Professor of Security and Justice at the Centre of Criminology, University of Cape Town. Mark worked for over ten years at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).

Allison McClelland holds a BA/LLB (Hons), with an extended major in International Relations, from the University of Queensland, Australia and will graduate from LSE with an LLM, specialising in Public International Law, in late 2016. Previously, Allison has interned for the Australian Embassy in Berlin, Academic Council on the United Nations System, United Nations Association of Australia, Asia-Pacific Centre for R2P and the Thailand Institute of Justice.

Jimmy Kuo Wei Lou is a post-graduate student pursuing MSc in International Political Economy at LSE. His research topics include International Investment, Political Economy of Development, and Trade Policy. As research and policy analyst, he has accumulated experience in the United Nations, Statistics Canada, and most recently McGill University’s Institute for the Study of International Development (ISID).