People

• Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - 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 - 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 - Susana Mourato, an environmental economist, is LSE's Vice President and Pro Vice Chancellor (Research).
• Professor Jonathan Pershing - Jonathan Pershing is the Dean and Professor in Practice of the Global School of Sustainability.
• Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - 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 for Nigeria.
• Professor Amartya Sen - 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 - 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 responsible for running the Global School of Sustainability. The committee will be joined by the leads for each theme.

• Professor Lord Nicholas Stern - Chair, Grantham Research Institute and the Global School of Sustainability
• Professor Jonathan Pershing - Dean and Professor in Practice of the Global School of Sustainability
• Professor Charles Stafford - Executive Director, Global School of Sustainability
• Harriet Carter - School Manager, Global School of Sustainability

• Professor Sir Andrew Steer - Professor in Practice, International Growth Centre and the Global School of Sustainability
• Dr Shantanu Singh - Global Impact Group Senior Policy Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Global School of Sustainability
• Erin Bishop - Global Impact Group Policy Fellow, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Global School of Sustainability
• Delfina Godfrid - Policy Analyst and Research Advisor to Nicholas Stern, Grantham Research Institute and the Global School of Sustainability
• Maria João Pimenta - Policy Analyst and Research Advisor to Nicholas Stern, Grantham Research Institute and the Global School of Sustainability

• Joanna Brown (J.Brown14@lse.ac.uk) - Executive Assistant to Chair of the Global School of Sustainability and Professor Sir Andrew Steer, the Global School of Sustainability
• Folly Fowowe (F.Fowowe@lse.ac.uk) - Student Experience Officer, Global School of Sustainability and LSE Sustainability
• Emma Heaton (E.Heaton@lse.ac.uk) - Communications and Events Coordinator, Global School of Sustainability
• Eva Lee - Executive Officer to Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, Grantham Research Institute and the Global School of Sustainability
• Tereze Lujane (T.Lujane@lse.ac.uk) - Operations Manager and Executive Assistant, Global School of Sustainability
• Will Mathews (GSoS@lse.ac.uk) - Operations Administrator, Global School of Sustainability
• Molly Rhead (m.rhead@lse.ac.uk) - Communications Manager, Global School of Sustainability
• Annie Wang (global.school.of.sustainability@lse.ac.uk) - GSoS Conference Manager, Global School of Sustainability

The Global School of Sustainability is jointly appointing, with relevant academic units, visitors to LSE to collaborate on advancing our mission.

Current GSoS Visiting Professors

• Jayant Sinha - Visiting Professor in Practice, Grantham Research Institute and the Global School of Sustainability.
• Christian Kroll - Visiting Professor, Grantham Research Institute and the Global School of Sustainability.
• Professor Sir Oliver Hart - Visiting Professor, LSE Department of Finance and the Global School of Sustainability

GSoS collaborates with departments and research units across LSE to host international thought leaders in sustainability. Their visits foster dialogue, invite idea exchanges and contribute to our ambitions for world-leading impact in research, education and engagement.

Upcoming visits

Academic Year 2025/26

• Professor Spencer Banzhaf, Professor and Director of The Centre for Environmental and Resource Economic Policy at North Carolina State University, United States. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Economic History, March 2026
• Professor Amita Baviskar, Professor of Environmental Studies, Sociology, and Anthropology at Ashoka University, India. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Geography and Environment, May 2026

Recent visits

Academic Year 2025/26

• Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Professor of Geography and Deputy Executive Dean of Research in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Health at Durham University, United Kingdom. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Sociology, February 2026
• Professor Navroz Dubash, Professor of Public Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University, United States. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of International Relations, January 2026
• Professor Seema Arora Jonsson, Professor and Chair of Rural Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Gender Studies, November 2025
• Professor Karen Kovaka, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, United States. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, November 2025
• Professor Helen Milner, B. C. Forbes Professor of Public Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University, United States. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Social Policy, November 2025
• Professor Claire Miller, Professor of Statistics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Glasgow and former President of the International Environmetrics Society, United Kingdom. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Statistics, October 2025
• Professor Nicole Starosielski, Professor of Film and Media at the University of California, Berkeley, United States. Co-hosted with the LSE Department of Media and Communications, October 2025
• Dr Sudarno Sumarto, Economist and founding Director of the SMERU Research Institute, Indonesia. Co-hosted with LSE Department of Economics, September 2025