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
@NFdaCruz

Catalina Duarte

Policy Officer 
C.Duarte-Sanchez@lse.ac.uk

Louise Ellaway

Policy Officer
L.R.Ellaway@lse.ac.uk

Rebecca Flynn

Policy Officer
r.flynn1@lse.ac.uk

Alexandra Gomes

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

Imogen Hamilton-Jones

Programme Manager
I.Hamilton-Jones@lse.ac.uk 
@ImogenHJ

Catarina Heeckt

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

Tayo Isa-Daniel

Researcher
O.C.Isa-Daniel@lse.ac.uk

Julia King

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

Ben Plowden

Senior Associate
B.Plowden@lse.ac.uk

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

Nermin Abdulla

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

Katie Beck

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

Emily Cruz

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

Sarah Davis

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

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

Sara Mahdi

Digital Communications Officer
S.Mahdi@lse.ac.uk

Marie Kaune

Urban95 Academy Administrator
M.S.Kaune@lse.ac.uk

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).

Gerardo del Cerro Santamaria

Visiting Associate, LSE Cities
Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría is a political economist and an urban scholar in New York City. He has served as Visiting Professor at MIT, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University, and a Program Director (Gateway Engineering) at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Professor del Cerro has been contributing to urban scholarship as Research Professor of Planning and Megaprojects at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in Manhattan. Del Cerro is the author or editor/co-author, inter alia, of Bilbao: Basque Pathways to Globalization (2007); Urban Megaprojects. A Worldview View (2013); Technological Futures, in Technology in Society (2015) and The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management (2017). His forthcoming book, Contesting Megaprojects. Complexity, Urban Disruption and the Quest for Sustainability, will be published by Columbia University Press in 2024.

Gerardo is a Senior Research Fellow at Future Earth Urban Knowledge-Action Network and Earth System Governance Project, a member of the European Union Expert Group in Regional Policy (Regio Program), and a recipient of a United States Fulbright Award in Urban Planning. Gerardo is an amateur classical pianist and participates in New York’s musical life. He holds a Ph.D. from the New School for Social Research in New York. 

Suzanne Hall

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

s.m.hall@lse.ac.uk

Kate Laffen

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

k.m.laffan@lse.ac.uk 

David Madden

Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology, LSE

d.j.madden@lse.ac.uk

Kathleen Scanlon

Distinguished Policy Fellow and Deputy Director, LSE London, LSE

k.j.scanlon@lse.ac.uk

Fran Tonkiss

Head of Department, 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

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

a.zeiderman@lse.ac.uk