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

Lucie Charles

Researcher
L.C.Charles@lse.ac.uk

Nuno F da Cruz

Assistant Professorial Research Fellow
n.m.ferreira-da-cruz@lse.ac.uk
@NFdaCruz

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 

Julia King

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

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 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

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

Catalina Duarte

Educational Project Coordinator 
C.Duarte-Sanchez@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

Jim Osborne

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

M. Antonella Bruzzese

Visiting Associate, LSE Cities
Antonella Bruzzese graduated in Architecture in Genoa. She obtained a Ph.D. in Urban Planning at the Politecnico di Milano where she is currently an Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design and is a member of the Ph.D. board of the Doctorate in Urban Planning, Design, and Policies.

Through teaching, research, and practicing she investigates the processes of urban transformation and their multiple intersections between urban design, planning activities, and urban policies, with a specific focus on the public space project and the collaborative practices of place-making at the neighbourhood scale.

Besides her work at Politecnico, she was a founding member of gruppoA12, a collective of architects who realized projects and installations presented in numerous biennials and exhibitions in Italy and abroad (1993-2016), and she has been an Assessor for Urban planning and public space in District 3 of the City of Milan (2016-21).

She wrote several books and essays. The last one is “Changing uses in public spaces: dehors’ supporting measures in Italy in COVID times” in Balducci A. et al. (eds.) Planning Prepared Territories, Routledge, London - New York 2022.

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).

Alessio Sardo

Visiting Associate, LSE Cities
Alessio Sardo is Senior Researcher at the University of Genoa (Italy) – Law Department. His current research addresses socioeconomic inequality in large European cities from a comparative perspective, focusing on the impact of stratified legal measures (e.g., rent-controls, laws regulating eviction procedures, and tenants’ rights) and administrative regulations on smart cities. His research interests also include the legal responses to extreme expression and fundamental issues of constitutional interpretation.

Dr. Sardo is also a member of the Board of the interdisciplinary PhD School in Security, Risk, Vulnerability (Genova), Coordinator of the Research Team on Smart Cities and Legal Orders, and Director of the Legal Theory Innovation Lab.

Suzanne Hall

Director, Cities Programme
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, LSE

s.m.hall@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