People

Jo Beall

Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow
j.beall@lse.ac.uk
@JoBeall1

Ricky Burdett

Director
Professor of Urban Studies, LSE
r.burdett@lse.ac.uk
@BURDETTR

Lucie Charles

Researcher
L.C.Charles@lse.ac.uk

Nuno F da Cruz

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow
n.m.ferreira-da-cruz@lse.ac.uk
@NFdaCruz

Rebecca Flynn

Policy Officer
r.flynn1@lse.ac.uk

Alexandra Gomes

Research Fellow
a.peca-amaral-gomes@lse.ac.uk
@xpgomes3

Catarina Heeckt

Policy Fellow
c.l.heeckt@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5524
@CHeeckt 

Julia King

Research Fellow
j.king7@lse.ac.uk 
@atjuliaking 

Francesco Ripa

Policy Manager
F.Ripa@lse.ac.uk 
@ripafran 

Philipp Rode

Executive Director
Associate Professorial Lecturer, LSE
Co-Director, Executive MSc in Cities, LSE
p.rode@lse.ac.uk
@PhilippRode

Ben Rogers

Bloomberg Distinguished Fellow in Government Innovation
B.Rogers1@lse.ac.uk
@ben_rog

Olivia Theocharides-Feldman

Researcher
O.Theocharides-Feldman@lse.ac.uk

Savvas Verdis

Senior Research Fellow
Deputy Director of the Executive MSc in Cities
s.verdis@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6313
@SavvasVerdis 

Katie Beck

Urban95 Academy Manager
k.a.beck@lse.ac.uk

Emily Cruz

Outreach Manager
e.m.cruz@lse.ac.uk
 

Sarah Davis

Finance and Resourcing Coordinator
s.j.davis@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5155

Catalina Duarte

Educational Project Coordinator 
C.Duarte-Sanchez@lse.ac.uk

Jennifer Ho

Centre Administrator
j.ho8@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5232

Laurence Horstman

Executive MSc Programme Administrator
l.horstman@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 7326

Tayo Isa-Daniel

Project Assistant
O.C.Isa-Daniel@lse.ac.uk

Jim Osborne

Executive MSc Programme Manager
j.osborne2@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6429

Andreas Herrmann

Visiting Professor, LSE Cities
Professor, University of St.Gallen
Director, Institute for Mobility, University of St. Gallen

Andreas Herrmann is a Professor at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland and Director of the University’s Institute for Mobility. He studied business administration, law and economics, holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Koblenz School of Corporate Management (WHU), Germany and received his habilitation at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His main research interest is the transformation of the mobility economy through autonomous, shared, electric and connected mobility concepts. Andreas Herrmann is author of 15 books and has published more than 250 journal articles. His most recent publication (with Johann Jungwirth) deals with the interplay between self-driving vehicles and Mobility-as-a-Service.

Jean-Louis Missika

Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Cities
From 2014 to 2020, Dr. Jean-Louis Missika was a Paris councilor and Deputy Mayor of Paris, in charge of urban planning, architecture, Greater Paris projects, economic development and attractiveness. From 2008 to 2014 he served as Deputy Mayor of Paris in charge of innovation, research and higher education.

Jean-Louis Missika is a media sociologist. He holds a PhD in management, a degree in philosophy and is graduated of Sciences Po Paris, where he has also taught media sociology. He was head of the Information and Dissemination Service of the Prime Minister Michel Rocard and director of BVA, before setting up a consulting firm. He also served as Vice President of Iliad.

Jean-Louis Missika has written several books, notably on media and politics: "La Folle du logis. television in Democratic Societies", with Dominique Wolton (Gallimard, 1983), "La Fin de la television" (Le Seuil/La République des idées, 2006), “Parler pour gagner, sémiotique des discours de la campagne présidentielle de 2007”, with Denis Bertrand and Alexandre Dézé (Presses de Sciences Po, 2007) and “Des robots dans la Ville”, with Pierre Musseau (Taillandier Essais 2018).

Ozlem Oz

Visiting Associate, LSE Cities
Ozlem Oz is a Professor at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey, where she teaches courses on globalisation and organisation theory.

Ozlem Oz has written two books as well as many articles in respected academic journals reflecting her research interests in geographic clusters, geography of the film industry, food co-operatives, and urban transformation in Istanbul.

BUKOOP, a university-based consumer food co-operative which Ozlem co-founded, has inspired the foundation of similar co-operatives nation-wide.

Alessio Sardo

Visiting Associate, LSE Cities
Alessio Sardo is Senior Researcher at the University of Genoa (Italy) – Law Department. His current research addresses socioeconomic inequality in large European cities from a comparative perspective, focusing on the impact of stratified legal measures (e.g., rent-controls, laws regulating eviction procedures, and tenants’ rights) and administrative regulations on smart cities. His research interests also include the legal responses to extreme expression and fundamental issues of constitutional interpretation.

Dr. Sardo is also a member of the Board of the interdisciplinary PhD School in Security, Risk, Vulnerability (Genova), Coordinator of the Research Team on Smart Cities and Legal Orders, and Director of the Legal Theory Innovation Lab.

Suzanne Hall

Director, Cities Programme
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, LSE

s.m.hall@lse.ac.uk

Alasdair Jones

Associate Professor, Department of Methodology, LSE
Visiting Lecturer, School of Architecture, RCA

a.jones@lse.ac.uk

David Madden

Assistant Professor in Sociology, LSE

d.j.madden@lse.ac.uk

Kathleen Scanlon

Research Fellow, LSE London, LSE

k.j.scanlon@lse.ac.uk

Don Slater

Reader in Sociology, LSE Cities, LSE

d.slater@lse.ac.uk

Fran Tonkiss

Professor, Department of Sociology, LSE

f.tonkiss@lse.ac.uk

Christine Whitehead

Emeritus Professor of Housing Economics, Department of Economics, LSE

c.m.e.whitehead@lse.ac.uk

Austin Zeiderman

Assistant Professor of Urban Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk