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

Nuno F da Cruz

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow
n.m.ferreira-da-cruz@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6546
@NFdaCruz

Rebecca Flynn

Postgraduate Research Fellow for Urban Transport and Mobility
r.flynn1@lse.ac.uk

Alexandra Gomes

Research Officer
a.peca-amaral-gomes@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 7390
@xpgomes3

Catarina Heeckt

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

Charlie Hicks

Researcher
C.B.Hicks1@lse.ac.uk 

Julia King

Research Fellow
j.king7@lse.ac.uk 
+44 (0)20 7107 5256
@atjuliaking

Philipp Rode

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

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

Management Accounts Coordinator
s.j.davis@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7107 5155

Lizzy Garlan

Communications and Outreach Assistant
E.Garlan@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

Tian Macleod Ji

Senior Video Producer
T.M.Ji@lse.ac.uk

Jim Osborne

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

Andreas Herrmann

Visiting Professor, LSE
Director, Institute of Customer Insight, University of St.Gallen
Professor, University of St.Gallen

Andreas Herrmann is Professor of Marketing and Director of the Institute of Customer Insight at the University of St.Gallen, Switzerland. He studied Business Administration, Law and Economics, holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from the Koblenz School of Corporate Management, Germany and did his habilitation at the University of Mannheim, Germany. His main research interests are Marketing Management and Behavioral Economics. Andreas Herrmann is author of 15 books and more than 250 journal articles. His recent publication deals with Autonomous Driving (with W. Brenner and R. Stadtler).

Kyriaki (Katie) Kasabalis

Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Cities
Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Urban + Environmental Planning, University of Virginia

k.kasabalis@lse.ac.uk

Kyriaki (Katie) Kasabalis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture and Urban + Environmental Planning at the University of Virginia. She is the founding principal of Future Assemblies, an interdisciplinary design studio, and co-founder of Future Current, an experimental platform for creatives to connect and collaborate over food. Her current research investigates the role of “knowledge economy” on the form and the socio-economic organization of cities. With the support of the Druker Fellowship from Harvard University, Kasabalis is mapping the evolution of tech-districts in East Asia, Europe and the United States. Looking through a physical rather than an economic lens, the research aims to develop a repository of global strategies that can be used by both designers and policy makers to influence future city development.

Prior to joining the University of Virginia, Kasabalis worked as an architect at Foster + Partners, Richard Meier & Partners and Weiss/Manfredi in New York City. She has served as visiting faculty at Cornell University and as guest critic at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Pratt, Syracuse and Northeastern Universities. Kasabalis received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University, where she was awarded the Charles Goodwin Medal. She holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design with distinction from Harvard University, where she received the award for Excellence in Urban Design.

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).

Ben Rogers

Bloomberg Fellow in Government Innovation, London School of Economics
Professor of Practice - London at the University of London

B.Rogers1@lse.ac.uk

Ben Rogers is an urbanist with a particular interest in the history of urbanism, citizenship, public space, public service reform, transport and the built environment.

Ben was founding Director of Centre for London from 2011-2021, which he built into a leading UK and urban think tank.  Previously Ben was an Associate Director of IPPR for five years and subsequently led strategy teams at Haringey Council, the Department for Local Government and Communities and the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, where he wrote the government’s strategy on ‘Quality of Place’.

Ben is the author of several acclaimed books on philosophy, history and democracy, and an experienced journalist and broadcaster. He has been a Contributing Editor to Prospect Magazine, a visiting fellow at the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the London Finance Commission, chaired by Professor Tony Travers. He has written widely for newspapers including the Financial Times and Guardian. Ben is also a trustee of The Yard Theatre and Design South East.

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