Share your expertise

LSE alumni, share your knowledge, experience and professional expertise with the LSE community, and raise your profile through LSE's speaking opportunities.

Whether you're welcoming new graduates to the LSE alumni community, helping students explore career pathways through careers events or company visits, or contributing your insights in alumni panel discussions or Q&As, there are a variety of ways to share your expertise, spark conversation and support the LSE community.

Ways to volunteer by sharing your insights and experience

Answer one question - or ten!

Our innovative micro-mentoring platform, Ask an Alum, uses AI to connect students and alumni for advice, feedback and research. Since October 2022, alumni have answered over 4,500 questions from the LSE community, covering everything from career advice and interviews to ethics and international policy.

First-year students on LSE100, LSE's flagship interdisciplinary course, also use Ask an Alum to gain insights into their selected research topic by asking alumni about their real‑world expertise. Through conversations with alumni working on future technologies, sustainability and other global challenges, LSE students are able to bridge academic inquiry and practical application, whilst alumni learn from current students about new developments at LSE.

If you would like to volunteer and share your expertise then visit Ask an Alum, but before you do please ensure your details are up to date.

Be a keynote speaker

Share your own journey with graduating students at their celebratory ceremonies. You can also share your tip tips on how to navigate life once you have graduated, which we will share on our social media channels.

LSE gave me tools, confidence, friends, and a way of approaching complex problems, but much of the learning has happened since ….. Graduation is not the moment when you need to have all the answers. It is the beginning of testing what you know and what you can do in the world, while staying open to paths you did not expect.

There are also many other opportunities to speak at alumni events or join alumni panel discussions. As part of our events for the 2026 Global Day of Volunteering, a number of alumni joined us on campus for a panel discussion titled The Power of Giving Back: How Volunteering Shapes Careers, Wellbeing and Community Impact.

Provide careers advice

You can inspire current LSE students by speaking about your career and answering questions from students in your former academic department; or you can participate in one of LSE Careers' themed programmes, speaking about your career or representing your employer and answering questions from students and alumni interested in working in your sector.

Host a visit to your company

LSE departments and organisations are looking for hosts for office visits, tours and talks in London or internationally. By hosting a student you offer them the opportunity to gain first hand experience of what it is like to work in a company or organisation like yours.

Other volunteering opportunities supported by us

Volunteer at LSE's Legal Advice Clinic

The LSE Legal Advice Centre at LSE Law School is a new pro bono initiative at the heart of the LSE campus. It launched in January 2025 and its aim is to improve access to justice by providing free, confidential legal advice to members of the public on a range of issues. The Centre offers students the opportunity to gain practical, hands-on experience designed to enhance their employability.

The Legal Advice Centre Director Diana Kirsch is an LSE alumna herself. She did her undergraduate studies at LSE (BSc International Relations 1992), then went on to qualify as a criminal defence solicitor in 1999 and after many years in a specialist criminal practice moved into higher education in 2007. Now back at LSE her life has come full circle and she is passionate about the potential for alumni to get involved in the Clinic and contribute to its success.

Become a school governor

Are you passionate about closing the attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils? LSE's Widening Participation Team, the Philanthropy and Global Engagement Division and the charity Boards for Education (formerly Governors for Schools), has launched the LSE School Governor Scheme to encourage and support LSE alumni (and staff) to become volunteer governors at schools across England and Wales.

When I saw that LSE offered the School Governor Scheme, it felt like the right time to deepen my involvement and contribute to the strategic decision-making of a school. The opportunity to have a positive impact on hundreds of children at a much greater level feels really important to me.