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Professor Sara Horrell

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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  • Economic history
  • Labour markets
  • Women's history
  • Children
  • Family economics

Professor Olivier Accominotti

Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Financial crises
  • Monetary history
  • Financial history
  • 20th century
  • Interwar period

Professor Leigh Gardner

Professor in Economic History
Department of Economic History
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  • Africa
  • Local governance
  • Monetary policy
  • Public finance

Jennie Stayner

Department Manager
Department of Economic History
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Professor Olivier Accominotti

Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Financial crises
  • Monetary history
  • Financial history
  • 20th century
  • Interwar period

Dr Pamfili Antipa

Assistant Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Monetary policy
  • Financial history
  • Political economy
  • Public finance

Dr Gerben Bakker

Associate Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Innovation
  • Productivity
  • Economic growth

Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

Assistant Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Gender inequality
  • Racial inequality
  • Labour economics
  • Philosophy of economics

Dr Jordan Claridge

Associate Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Economic history
  • Labour economics
  • Middle Ages
  • Agriculture
  • Labour markets

Professor Neil Cummins

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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  • Demography
  • Social mobility
  • Economic history
  • Big data

Professor Kent Deng

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Professor Leigh Gardner

Professor in Economic History
Department of Economic History
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  • Africa
  • Local governance
  • Monetary policy
  • Public finance

Youssef Ghallada

Teaching Fellow
Department of Economic History
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  • Trade
  • Financial history
  • Monetary history

Professor Sara Horrell

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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  • Economic history
  • Labour markets
  • Women's history
  • Children
  • Family economics

Professor Jane Humphries

Centennial Professor
Department of Economic History
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Dr Jason Lennard

Associate Professor
Department of Economic History
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Professor Chris Minns

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Professor Mary Morgan

Albert O. Hirschman Professor of History and Philosophy of Economics
Department of Economic History
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Dr Maanik Nath

Assistant Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Asia
  • Financial markets
  • Health
  • Economic geography

Dr Tom Raster

Assistant Professor
Department of Economic History
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Professor Albrecht Ritschl

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Professor Joan Roses

Professor in Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Professor Tirthankar Roy

Professor in Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Dr Anne Ruderman

Assistant Professor
Department of Economic History
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Professor Mohamed Saleh

Professor
Department of Economic History
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Professor Eric Schneider

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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  • Demography
  • Health
  • Economic growth

Professor Max Schulze

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Professor Oliver Volckart

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Professor Patrick Wallis

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Dr Melanie Meng Xue

Assistant Professor
Department of Economic History
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  • Political economy
  • Gender
  • China

Dudley Baines

Emeritus Reader in Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Professor Janet Hunter

Saji Professor
Department of Economic History
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Dr Alejandra Irigoin

Associate Professor
Department of Economic History
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Professor Colin Lewis

Emeritus Professor of Latin American Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Dr Christopher Kissane

Engagement & Impact Lead
Department of Economic History
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Sara Bagagli

Assistant Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance
Department of Geography and Environment
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  • Transport
  • Urban inequality
  • Infrastructure

Matthew Sterling Benson-Strohmayer

Research Fellow and Sudans Research Director in the Conflict & Civicness Research Group

Jeremiah Dittmar

Associate Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
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Matthias Doepke

Professor of Economics | PhD Placement Director | Nicholas Kaldor Chair in Economics
Department of Economics
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Professor Jean-Paul Faguet

Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Department of International Development
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  • International institutions
  • Inequality
  • State capacity
  • Identity
  • Revolution
  • Latin America

Dr Nadia Matringe

Assistant Professor of Accounting
Department of Accounting
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Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
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Professor at North Carolina State University and director of the Center for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy
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Professor Youssef Cassis

Visiting Professor
Department of Economic History
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Dr Terence Gourvish

Visiting Academic
Department of Economic History
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Professor Leslie Hannah

Visiting Professor
Department of Economic History
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Dr Karolina Hutkova

Visiting academic
Department of Economic History
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Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay

Senior Visiting Fellow
Department of Economic History
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Professor Andrew Seltzer

Visiting Professor
Department of Economic History

Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Financial history
  • Arts and culture
  • Asset pricing
  • Trade

Marco Cokic

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Trade
  • Political economy
  • Eastern Europe
  • Economic history

Junqi Fan

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Labour markets
  • Southeast Asia
  • Gender economics

Florentine Friedrich

Phd Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Gender economics
  • Economic growth
  • Religion
  • Cultural history

Aris Grivokostopoulos

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Monetary policy
  • Sovereign debt
  • Greece

Gillian Hollebone

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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Andrés Irarrázaval

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Political economy
  • Development economics
  • Latin America

Alex Juska

PhD student
Department of Economic History

Bruce Jeffery

PhD student
Department of Economic History

Yuankai Jin

PhD student
Department of Economic History

Mikhail Kolosov

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Social history
  • 19th century
  • Agricultural history
  • 18th century

Tom Learmouth

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Japan
  • East Asia
  • Industrialisation
  • Global history
  • Economic history

Yangyang Liu

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • China
  • Monetary history
  • Financial history
  • Sustainable finance

Youyan Luo

PhD student
Department of Economic History

Eden Lumerman

PhD student
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Viren Mahurkar

PhD student
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Anna Melnikova

PhD student
Department of Economic History

Dwi Anggi Novianti

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Public health
  • Economic history
  • Indonesia
  • Southeast Asia
  • Colonialism

Johann Ohler

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Demography
  • Urban economics

Sheila Pugh

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Public services
  • Public health

Greg Salter

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Middle Ages
  • Economic history
  • Risk management

Ziyue 'Zoey' Shen

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • China
  • Monetary history
  • Financial history
  • Economic growth

Jingwen Shi

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Public economics
  • Altruism
  • Early modern history

Mek Ajay Sribhibhadh

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Southeast Asia
  • Development economics
  • Colonialism

Noah Sutter

PhD Student
Department of Economic History
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  • Social mobility
  • Elites
  • Wealth inequality
  • France
  • Economic history

David Teeters

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Financial markets
  • Sovereign debt
  • 20th century

David Vieira Marques Da Costa

PhD student
Department of Economic History

Rose Wu

PhD student
Department of Economic History

John W. Z. Zhang

PhD student
Department of Economic History
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  • Social policy
  • Automation
  • Political economy

Professional Support Team and Student Support Teams

Oli Harrison

MSc Programmes Officer
Department of Economic History

Kamilah Hassan

Operations Assistant
Department of Economic History
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Helena Ivins

Departmental Tutor/Undergraduate Programmes Manager
Department of Economic History
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Tracy Keefe

PhD Programme Manager, Research Projects Manager, Deputy Department Manager
Department of Economic History
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Jennie Stayner

Department Manager
Department of Economic History
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Darren Townsend

Assessment and Regulations Officer
Department of Economic History

The team includes LSE Careers Consultant Anna Koukoullis, (a.koukoullis@lse.ac.uk), who manages careers events and provides advice and guidance to undergraduate students in the department.

Dr Alex Green

LSE Fellow, Academic Mentor to Years 1 and 2 Undergraduates
Department of Economic History
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Helena Ivins

Departmental Tutor/Undergraduate Programmes Manager
Department of Economic History
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The team includes LSE Careers Consultant Anna Koukoullis, (a.koukoullis@lse.ac.uk), who manages careers events and provides advice and guidance to undergraduate students in the department.

Oli Harrison

MSc Programmes Officer
Department of Economic History

Professor Albrecht Ritschl

Professor of Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Tracy manages both the MPhil/PhD programme and the Visiting Research Student scheme. She can advise on all logistical aspects of the programme from application to viva. She operates an open door policy and is always happy to chat.

Professor Tirthankar Roy

Professor in Economic History
Department of Economic History
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Tracy Keefe

PhD Programme Manager, Research Projects Manager, Deputy Department Manager
Department of Economic History
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Class teachers 2026-27

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