People

• Professor Susana Mourato  - Susana Mourato, an environmental economist, is LSE's Vice President and Pro Vice Chancellor (Research).
• 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.
• Professor Jonathan Pershing - Dean of the Global School of Sustainability, and Professor in Practice
• Professor Charles Stafford - Executive Director of the Global School of Sustainability
• Professor Sir Andrew Steer - Professor in Practice of the Global School of Sustainability and the International Growth Centre
• Harriet Carter - School Manager of the Global School of Sustainability

Our management committee is responsible for the overall direction of GSoS and its activities, in accordance with its objectives and with guidance from the Strategy Board.

The committee consists of the GSoS Leadership Group joined by the co-leads for each GSoS theme, Global Impact Group leadership, and the Directors of the three Research Centres that report into the Global School of Sustainability - the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment (GRI), the TPI Global Climate Transition Centre (TPI Centre), and the Centre for Economic Transition Expertise (CETEx).

• 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 of the Global School of Sustainability and Professor in Practice.
• 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 Chair of the Financial Services Authority and of the Committee on Climate Change.

The Global Impact Group (GIG) informs and give impetus to the global agenda on sustainable growth and development at a time of difficult geopolitics and deepening climate crisis.

Policy staff supporting the GIG:

• 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
• Yanxi Zhou, Global Impact Group Policy Officer, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Global School of Sustainability

• Mariane Bignotto (M.Bignotto@lse.ac.uk) - Funds Manager - GSoS Internal Open Research Call, Research and Innovation Division
• 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
• Shalen Fu (Y.Fu13@lse.ac.uk) - Senior Funds Manager - GSoS Internal Open Research Call, Research and Innovation Division
• Emma Heaton (E.Heaton@lse.ac.uk) - Communications and Events Coordinator, Global School of Sustainability
• Niketan Kaler (N.Kaler@lse.ac.uk) - Financial Planning and Analysis Manager for GSoS, Finance Division
• 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 and Events Manager, Global School of Sustainability
• Annie Wang (global.school.of.sustainability@lse.ac.uk) - GSoS Conference Manager, Global School of Sustainability

• Professor Amil Dasgupta -Creating sustainable finance and business
• Professor Robin Burgess and Dr Eugenie Dugoua - Generating sustainable growth
• Professor Veerle Hayvaert, Dr Joana Setzer, Professor Robert Falkner - Mobilising political, legal and governance systems
• Professor Giles Atkinson and Professor in Practice Nicola Ranger - Protecting and enhancing nature and biodiversity
• Professor Liam Delaney and Professor Elizabeth Robinson - Building sustainable societies

• Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
• TPI Centre
• CETEx

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 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 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 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