Our People
Programme Co-directors
Philipp Rode - Executive Director, LSE Cities
Philipp Rode is Executive Director of LSE Cities and Associate Professorial Research Fellow at LSE. He oversees all programme teaching and is course convenor for Cities & the Environment, as well as co-convenor of Urban Development and Strategic Planning.
Savvas Verdis - Deputy Director, Executive MSc in Cities
Savvas Verdis is a Senior Lecturer in Practice at LSE Cities, the Deputy Director of the Executive MSc in Cities and the founder of Challenge Circles. He is responsible for the day-to-day teaching of the programme and is course convenor for Cities and the Economy and co-convenor of Urban Development & Masterplanning.
Senior Faculty
Ricky Burdett - Director, LSE Cities
Ricky Burdett is Professor of Urban Studies at LSE and Director of the Urban Age and LSE Cities. In this role, he provides strategic oversight of the Executive MSc in Cities and is co-course convenor for Cities in an Urban Age, Cities and Society and Urban Development & Masterplanning.
Tony Travers - Director, LSE London
Tony Travers is Associate Dean of the LSE School of Public Policy and Director of LSE London. He provides advice on programme content and is co-course convenor for Governing Cities in an Urban Age and Urban Development & Masterplanning.
Jo Beall - Professorial Research Fellow, LSE Cities
Research areas: Development, education and infrastructure
Fran Tonkiss - Deputy Head, Department of Sociology
Research areas: LSE Urban sociology, society and inequality
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose - Professor, Department of Geography, LSE
Research areas: Economic geography, regional and urban economic development
Global Faculty & Guest Contributors
Greg Clark - Global Urbanist, Innovator and Author
Duncan Green - Professor in Practice and Senior Strategic Adviser at Oxfam GB
Maria Vassilakou - CEO of Vassilakou Urban Consulting, Former Deputy Mayor of Vienna
Lewis Dijkstra - Visiting Professor, LSE; Head of the Urban and Territorial Analysis Team, European Commission
Ireena Vittal - Consultant, Advisor and Author
David Simon - Professor, Royal Hollaway, University of London
Mark Watts - Executive Director, C40 Cities
Julia King - Director, Social Place
Dori Sallai - Associate Professor (Education) of Management, Department of Management, LSE
Robert Goodspeed - Chair of Urban and Regional Planning, Associate Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, Taubman College, University of Michigan
Divya McMillin - Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation & Global Engagement | Professor of Global Media Studies, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington, Tacoma
Carla Washbourne - Reader (Environmental policy, Nature-based solutions, Urban data), Warwick University
Alexander Budzier - Fellow in Management Practice in the Field of Information Systems, Said Business School, University of Oxford
Jorrit de Jong - Director, Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University