People

Find out who's who at LSE Cities

 Executive Group

Ricky Burdett

Ricky Burdett

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

 

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Philipp Rode

Executive Director
Associate Professor (Education), LSE
Co-Director, Executive MSc in Cities, LSE
p.rode@lse.ac.uk
@PhilippRode

 
Jo Beall

Jo Beall

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

 

CENTRE STAFF

Academic, Research and Policy


Jo Beall

Jo Beall

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



Ricky Burdett

 

Ricky Burdett

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


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Josefa Errázuriz Clark

Researcher/Project Coordinator (Santiago Urban Task Force)
J.Errazuriz@lse.ac.uk






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Imogen Hamilton-Jones

Programme Manager (European Cities Programme)
I.Hamilton-Jones@lse.ac.uk 
@ImogenHJ


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Catarina Heeckt

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


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Charlie Hicks

Research Officer
C.B.Hicks1@lse.ac.uk




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Philipp Rode

Executive Director
Associate Professor (Education), LSE

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


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Ben Rogers

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


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Savvas Verdis

Senior Lecturer in Practice
Co-Director of the Executive MSc in Cities
s.verdis@lse.ac.uk
+44 (0)20 7955 6313
@SavvasVerdis
 


Management and Operations

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Nermin Abdulla

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


Emily Cruz

Emily Cruz

Communications and Engagement Manager
e.m.cruz@lse.ac.uk
 


Sarah Davis

Sarah Davis

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


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Situ Diwan

Logistics Coordinator (Urban95 Academy) 
S.Diwan1@lse.ac.uk


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Jennifer Ho

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

Current Visiting Staff

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Kate Ascher 

Visiting Senior Fellow, LSE Cities
Kate Ascher currently serves as the Milstein Professor of Urban Development at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where she teaches real estate, infrastructure and urban planning courses. She continues to practice as a sub-consultant to Buro Happold, a global engineering firm based in the UK, where she served as partner through 2019 and founded the “Cities” team – which today works on a variety of resilience, public space and economic development projects on behalf of government and private clients across the US and internationally.

Prior to joining Buro Happold, she served as Director of Development at Vornado Realty Trust, Executive Vice-President at the NYC Economic Development Corporation (under Mike Bloomberg), and Assistant Director of the Port at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In these capacities, she oversaw and delivered a variety of complex projects ranging from waterfront and park activation to transportation, real estate development and urban regeneration.  

Kate holds a BA from Brown University, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from the London School of Economics, and is the author of several books on urban infrastructure (The Works, The Heights and The Way to Go), as well as co-author of New York Rising, an illustrated anthology of New York City’s physical evolution. She serves on the Boards of the Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center in NYC and the Holcim Foundation, based in Zurich


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Alessio Sardo

Short-term Visiting Senior Associate, LSE Cities
Alessio Sardo is a Full Professor at the University of Genova (Italy), Law Department, and a recipient of the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his project, HABITAT - How European Big Cities and Legal Systems Trigger Urban Inequality.

Previously, he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Department of Public Law, Constitutional Theory, and Philosophy of Law. From 2014 to 2019, he served as a Researcher and Lecturer at Bocconi University (Milan). His research lies at the intersection of legal theory, comparative law, and the economic analysis of law.

Professor Sardo's scholarly work has been published in leading international journals, including The Modern Law Review, The American Journal of Jurisprudence, The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, The German Law Review, Rechtstheorie, The European Journal of Migration and Law, Jurisprudence, The Kanazawa Law Journal, The European Convention on Human Rights Law Review, and European Journal of Law and Economics.

Associates

Suzanne Hall

Suzanne Hall

Professor in Sociology and Deputy Head of Department, Department of Sociology, LSE

s.m.hall@lse.ac.uk

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Kate Laffen

Assistant Professor in Behavioural Science, Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science

k.m.laffan@lse.ac.uk 

 

David Madden

David Madden

Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE

d.j.madden@lse.ac.uk

 

Kathleen Scanlon

Kathleen Scanlon

Distinguished Policy Fellow and Deputy Director, LSE London, LSE

k.j.scanlon@lse.ac.uk

 

Fran Tonkiss

Fran Tonkiss

Head of Department, Department of Sociology, LSE

f.tonkiss@lse.ac.uk

 

Christine Whitehead

Christine Whitehead

Emeritus Professor of Housing Economics, Department of Economics, LSE

c.m.e.whitehead@lse.ac.uk 

 

Austin Zeiderman

Austin Zeiderman

Associate Professor of Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk

 

 

 


CENTRE GOVERNANCE

Governing Board

Jo Beall
Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Research Fellow LSE cities

Ricky Burdett
Professor of Urban Studies; Director, LSE Cities

Laura Dawson
Consultant, Trustee and Non-exec Director and Chief Information Officer, LSE (2017–2022)

Philipp Rode
Associate Professor (Education); Executive Director, LSE Cities

Nicholas Stern (Chair)
IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, LSE; Chair, Grantham Research Institute

Andrés Velasco
Dean, School of Public Policy, LSE

Management Group

Gabriel-Ahlfeldt

Gabriel Ahlfeldt

Professor of Urban Economics and Land Development
Development, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

g.ahlfeldt@lse.ac.uk

 

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Gharad Bryan

Lecturer in Economics, Department of Economics, LSE
Cities Research Programme Co-Director, International Growth Centre, LSE
Associate, Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), LSE

g.t.bryan@lse.ac.uk

 

Ricky Burdett

Ricky Burdett

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

 

Sam-Fankhauser

Samuel Fankhauser

Visiting Professor and former Director, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change

Professor of Climate Change Economics and Policy, University of Oxford

s.fankhauser@lse.ac.uk

 

Nuno Ferreira da Cruz

Nuno Ferreira da Cruz

Senior Associate, LSE Cities

n.m.ferreira-da-cruz@lse.ac
@NFdaCruz

 

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Vernon Henderson

School Professor of Economic Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE

j.v.henderson@lse.ac.uk

 

JonathanLeape

Jonathan Leape

Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, LSE
Executive Director, International Growth Centre, LSE

j.leape@lse.ac.uk

 

David-Madden

David Madden

Co-Director, Cities Programme
Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE

d.j.madden@lse.ac.uk

 

Anne-Power

Anne Power

Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, Department of Social Policy, LSE
Head, LSE Housing & Communities, LSE

anne.power@lse.ac.uk

 

Philipp Rode

Philipp Rode

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

 

Mike-Savage

Mike Savage

Martin White Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE

m.a.savage@lse.ac.uk

 

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Kath Scanlon

Distinguished Policy Fellow, LSE London, LSE
Deputy Director, LSE London

k.j.scanlon@lse.ac.uk

 

Fran Tonkiss

Fran Tonkiss

Head of Department, Department of Sociology, LSE
Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE

f.tonkiss@lse.ac.uk

 

 

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Tony Travers

Associate Dean of the School of Public Policy
Director, LSE London
Professor in Practice, Department of Government, LSE

a.travers@lse.ac.uk

 

 

Savvas Verdis

Savvas Verdis

Senior Research Fellow,  LSE Cities
Deputy Director of the Executive MSc in Cities

s.verdis@lse.ac.uk
@SavvasVerdis 

 

Austin Zeiderman

Austin Zeiderman

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

a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk