Our Strategy Board, Management Committee, and Global Impact Group
GSoS is informed by insights from our Strategy Board, Management Committee and Global Impact Group.
Our strategy board consists of both external and LSE members. It is a body of global leaders committed to GSoS and a sustainable future for all.
- Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government and Chair of both the Grantham Research Institute and the Global School of Sustainability.
- Lei Zhang is Founder and CEO of Envision, one of the world’s leading renewable energy companies, and Co-chair of the GSoS Strategy Board.
- Professor Susana Mourato, an environmental economist, is LSE’s Vice President and Pro Vice Chancellor (Research).
- Professor Jonathan Pershing is the Dean of the Global School of Sustainability and Professor in Practice at LSE.
- Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is the Director General of the World Trade Organization, having served in a number of other public roles, including two terms as Finance Minister of Nigeria.
- Professor Amartya Sen is an economist and philosopher who was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences for his contributions to welfare economics.
- Lord Adair Turner has served in a number of prominent public roles in the UK, including as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority and of the Committee on Climate Change.
Our management committee is comprised of our Senior Leadership, our Theme Co-leads and the Directors of our related research centres.
- Professor Giles Atkinson - Professor of Environmental Policy, and GSoS Nature and Biodiversity Theme Co-Lead
- Professor Robin Burgess - Professor of Economics, Director of IGC and GSoS Sustainable Growth Theme Co-Lead
- Harriet Carter - GSoS School Manager
- Professor Amil Dasgupta - Professor of Finance, Director of the Financial Markets Group, and Sustainable Finance Theme Lead
- Professor Liam Delaney - Head of Department, Professor of Behavioural Science, and Sustainable Societies Theme Co-Lead
- Dr Eugenie Dugoua - Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Growth Theme Co-Lead
- Professor Robert Falkner - Professor of International Relations, and Political, Legal, Governance Systems Theme Co-Lead
- Professor Veerle Heyvaert - Associate Dean of LSE Law School, Professor of Law, and Political, Legal, Governance Systems Theme Co-Lead
- Professor Jonathan Leape - IGC Executive Director
- Professor Susana Mourato - LSE Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research)
- Professor Carmen Nuzzo - LSE Professor in Practice, TPI Executive Director
- Professor Rob Palatano - LSE Professor in Practice, CETEx Executive Director Research Centre Director
- Jonathan Pershing - LSE Professor in Practice, Dean of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE
- Nicola Ranger - Professor in Practice, Earth Capital Nexus Executive Director, and Nature and Biodiversity Theme Co-Lead
- Elizabeth Robinson - Professor of Environmental Economics and Sustainable Societies Theme Co-Lead
- Joana Setzer - Associate Professorial Research Fellow (GRI), and Political, Legal, Governance Systems Theme Co-Lead
- Charles Stafford - Professor of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Global School of Sustainability at LSE
- Andrew Steer - Professor in Practice, GSoS and IGC Professor in Practice & GIG Executive Director
- Nicholas Stern - IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government Chair and Co-Founder
- Bob Ward - Policy and Communications Director (GRI) and GIG Deputy Director
The Global Impact Group (GIG) was established in 2025 as a joint enterprise from the Global School of Sustainability and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE.
The members of the Global Impact Group are: