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Professor Tim Allen

Professor of Development Anthropology

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Professor Catherine Boone

Professor of Comparative Politics and African Political Economy
Programme Director, African Development

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Professor Ernestina Coast

Professor of Health and International Development
Programme Director, Health and International Development
Programme Director, Population and Development

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Professor E A (Teddy) Brett

Professor of International Development

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Professor Tim Dyson

Professor of Population Studies

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Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Programme Co-Director, Development Management

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Dr Tasha Fairfield (sabbatical 2017/18)

Assistant Professor in Development Studies

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Professor Tim Forsyth

Professor of Environment and Development

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Dr Stuart Gordon (sabbatical 2017/18)

Associate Professorial Lecturer in Managing Humanitarianism
Programme Director, International Development and Humanitarian Emergencies

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Arjan Gjonça

Associate Professor of Demography

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Dr Duncan Green

Senior Strategic Adviser, Oxfam UK, and Professor in Practice

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Dr Elliott Green

Associate Professor in Development Studies

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Dr Lloyd Gruber

Assistant Professor in Political Economy of Development

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Professor Kathryn Hochstetler

Professor of International Development

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Professor Jude Howell (sabbatical 2017/18)

Professor of International Development

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Professor Naila Kabeer

Professor of Gender and Development

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Professor Mary Kaldor

Professor of Global Governance
Programme Director, Civil Society and Human Security Research Unit

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Dr Sohini Kar

Assistant Professor

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Professor David Keen

Professor of Complex Emergencies

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Dr Tiziana Leone

Assistant Professor in Demography

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Dr Shirin Madon

Associate Professor in ICTs and Socio-Economic Development

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Dr Laura Mann

Assistant Professor

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Dr Kate Meagher

Associate Professor in Development Studies

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Professor Thandika Mkandawire

Professor of African Development

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Dr Philipa Mladovsky

Assistant Professor in International Development

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Dr Joana Naritomi

Assistant Professor

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Professor James Putzel

Professor of Development Studies
Programme Director, Development Studies and Research

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Dr Sandra Sequeira

Associate Professor in Development Economics

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Professor Ken Shadlen

Professor of Development Studies

Head of Department

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Dr Mahvish Shami

Assistant Professor in Development Studies

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Dr Rajesh Venugopal

Assistant Professor in Managing Humanitarianism

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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

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Allard Duursma

Research officer in the Conflict Research Programme

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Dr Vesna Bojičić-Dželilović

Senior Research Fellow in the CSHS and the European Institute

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Dr Regina Enjuto-Martinez

Research Officer

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Dr Eyob Gebremariam

LSE Fellow

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Dr Peter Ho

LSE Professorial Fellow

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Levy, Fellow, International Development, LSE

Dr Stephanie Levy

Guest Lecturer

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Dr Holly Porter

Research Fellow, Lead Researcher (JSRP)

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Dr Yuanyuan Qu

Research Officer

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Dr Iavor Rangelov

Global Security Research Fellow

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Dr Jerome Roos

LSE Fellow

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Dr Portia Roelofs

LSE Fellow

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Dr Moritz Schmoll

LSE Fellow

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Dr Rim Turkmani

LSE Senior Research Fellow

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Dr Florian Weigand

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

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Professor David Aberbach

Visiting Research Fellow

Owen Barder

Visiting Professor in Practice

Dr Joseph Hanlon

Visiting Senior Fellow

Dr Fatima El-Issawi

Semior Visiting Fellow

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Professor Carlota Perez

Visiting Professor

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Kirsten Sehnbruch

Visiting Senior Fellow

Visiting (Senior) Fellow appointments are intended to help Departments, Institutes and Centres to invite staff who are either practitioners or academics in other institutions to conduct research, or be involved in other activities which will benefit the Department.

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Nelson Ruiz-Guarin

Nelson received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2018. He wrote his dissertation about conflict, political selection, and the influence of money in politics.

Nelson studies the political economy of development. He is particularly interested in electoral systems, political selection, the influence of campaign contributions in politics.

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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.