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Head of Department
Professor Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey
gov.hod@lse.ac.uk

Department Manager
Imran Iqbal
i.iqbal2@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7908

Deputy Department Manager
Catherine Robinson
c.robinson7@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7909

Faculty Enquiries
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Undergraduate Enquiries
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Paul Apostolidis (Dr)
Associate Professorial Lecturer and Deputy Head of Department for Education
Room CBG 3.07 | +44 (0)207 955 6295 | p.apostolidis@lse.ac.uk

Emiel Awad (Dr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 3.10 | e.awad@lse.ac.uk

Paolo Belardinelli
Fellow in Public Policy and Administration
Room CBG 3.08 | +44 (0)207 955 5385 | p.belardinelli@lse.ac.uk

Daniel Berliner (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 3.15 | +44 (0)207 955 5335 | d.berliner@lse.ac.uk

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Catherine Boone (Prof)
Professor of Comparative Politics
+44 (0)207 107 5153 | c.boone@lse.ac.uk

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Sumantra Bose (Prof)
Professor of International and Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.28 | +44 (0)207 955 7811 | s.bose@lse.ac.uk

William Bosworth (Dr)
LSE Fellow in Political Theory
Room CBG 3.10 | +44 (0)207 849 4602 | w.bosworth@lse.ac.uk

Sarah Brierley (Dr)
Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.37 | +44 (0)207 955 5666 | s.brierley@lse.ac.uk

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Michael Bruter (Prof)
Professor of Political Science and European Politics
Room CBG 3.03 | +44 (0)207 955 6547 | m.bruter@lse.ac.uk

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John Chalcraft (Prof)
Professor in Middle East History and Politics
Room CBG 4.19 | +44 (0)207 955 6630 | j.t.chalcraft@lse.ac.uk

Luke J. Davies (Dr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 3.11 | +44 (0)207 955 6816 | l.j.davies@lse.ac.uk

Torun Dewan (Prof)
Professor of Political Science
Room CBG 4.22 | +44 (0)207 955 6406 | t.dewan@lse.ac.uk

Vesselin Dimitrov (Dr)
Associate Professor (Reader) in Eastern European Politics
Room CBG 4.38 | +44 (0)207 955 7173 | v.t.dimitrov@lse.ac.uk

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Patrick Dunleavy (Prof)
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 3.29 | +44 (0)207 955 7178 | p.dunleavy@lse.ac.uk

Mathilde Emeriau
Assistant Professor in Empirical Political Economy
Room CBG 4.29 | +44 (0)207 955 5667 | m.emeriau@lse.ac.uk

Anastasia Ershova (Dr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 3.12 | +44 (0)207 955 6557 | a.ershova@lse.ac.uk

Benjamin Faude (Dr)
LSE Fellow in Global Politics (Joint appointment with International Relations)
Room CBG 3.08 | +44 (0)20 7955 7805 | b.faude@lse.ac.uk

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Katrin Flikschuh (Prof)
Professor of Modern Political Theory
Room CBG 4.21 | +44 (0)207 955 7210 | k.a.flikschuh@lse.ac.uk

Florian Foos (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour
Room CBG 3.25 | f.foos@lse.ac.uk

Joe Greenwood (Dr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 4.13 | +44 (0)207 955 6997 | j.greenwood3@lse.ac.uk

Signy Gutnick-Allen (Dr)
LSE Fellow in Political Theory
Room CBG 3.11 | s.gutnick-allen@lse.ac.uk

Charlotte Haberstroh (Dr)
LSE Fellow in Public Policy / Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.13 | +44 (0)207 849 4679 | c.m.haberstroh@lse.ac.uk

Dominik Hangartner (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science
Room CBG 3.17 | d.hangartner@lse.ac.uk

Steffen Hertog (Dr)
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.27 | +44 (0)207 955 7196 | s.hertog@lse.ac.uk

Simon Hix (Prof)
Harold Laski Professor of Political Science
Room COL 1.00 | +44 (0)207 955 7657 | s.hix@lse.ac.uk

Sara Hobolt (Prof)
Sutherland Chair in European Institutions
Room CBG 4.34 | +44 (0)207 955 6153 | s.b.hobolt@lse.ac.uk

Jonathan Hopkin (Dr)
Associate Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.34 | +44 (0)207 955 6535 | j.r.hopkin@lse.ac.uk

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Rafael Hortala-Vallve (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 3.16 | +44 (0)207 955 7176 | r.hortala-vallve@lse.ac.uk

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James Hughes (Prof)
Professor of Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.33 | +44 (0)207 955 6898 | j.hughes@lse.ac.uk

Ryan Jablonski (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Political Science
Room CBG 3.32 | +44 (0)207 852 3799 | r.s.jablonski@lse.ac.uk

Leigh Jenco (Prof)
Professor in Political Theory
Room CBG 4.25 | +44 (0)207 107 5253 | l.k.jenco@lse.ac.uk

Jan Kandiyali (Dr)
LSE Fellow in Political theory
Room CBG 3.12 | j.kandiyali@lse.ac.uk

Paul Kelly (Prof)
Professor of Political Theory
Room CBG 4.18 | +44 (0)207 955 6113 | p.j.kelly@lse.ac.uk

Hwa Young Kim
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 4.14 | +44 (0)207 106 1267 | h.y.kim@lse.ac.uk

Bill Kissane (Dr)
Associate Professor (Reader)
Room CBG 3.39 | +44 (0)207 955 7900 | b.kissane@lse.ac.uk

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Mathias Koenig-Archibugi (Dr)
Associate Professor in Global Politics
Room CBG 3.38 | +44 (0)207 955 7193 | m.koenig-archibugi@lse.ac.uk

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Valentino Larcinese (Prof)
Professor in Public Policy
Room CBG 3.02 | +44 (0)207 955 7037 | v.larcinese@lse.ac.uk

Bruno Leipold (Dr)
LSE Fellow in Political Theory
Room CBG 3.06 | +44 (0)207 955 7186 | b.leipold@lse.ac.uk

Chun Lin (Prof)
Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7197 | c.lin@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Martin Lodge

Martin Lodge (Prof)
Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
Room CBG 3.05 | +44 (0)207 849 4627 | m.lodge@lse.ac.uk

Omar McDoom (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.36 | +44 (0)207 955 7557 | o.s.mcdoom@lse.ac.uk

Paul Mitchell (Dr)
Associate Professor in European Politics and Political Methodology
Room CBG 3.30 | +44 (0)207 955 6340 | p.l.mitchell@lse.ac.uk

George Ofosu (Dr)
Assistant Professor in Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.04 | +44 (0)207 955 5668 | g.ofosu@lse.ac.uk

Ed Page (Prof)
Sidney and Beatrice Webb Professor in Public Policy
Room CBG 4.30 | +44 (0)207 849 4629 | e.c.page@lse.ac.uk

Francisco Panizza (Prof)
Professor of Latin American and Comparative Politics
Room CBG 4.32 | +44 (0)207 955 7681 | f.e.panizza@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Anne Phillips.

Anne Phillips (Prof)
Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science
Room CBG 3.28 | +44 (0)207 955 6979 | a.phillips@lse.ac.uk

Stephanie Rickard (Prof)
Professor of Political Science
Room CBG 4.36 | +44 (0)207 849 4919 | s.rickard@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey

Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey (Prof)
Professor in Political Science and Head of Department
Room CBG 3.09 | +44 (0)207 955 7187 | c.m.schonhardt-bailey@lse.ac.uk

John Sidel (Prof)
Sir Patrick Gillam Chair in International and Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.35 | +44 (0)207 955 6032 | j.t.sidel@lse.ac.uk

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David Soskice (Prof)
LSE School Professor of Political Science and Economics
Room CBG 4.31 | +44 (0)207 852 3637 | d.w.soskice@lse.ac.uk

Kai Spiekermann (Prof)
Professor of Political Philosophy
Room CBG 4.26 | +44 (0)207 955 6516 | k.spiekermann@lse.ac.uk

Eiko Thielemann (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
+44 (0)207 955 6012 | e.thielemann@lse.ac.uk

Wang Leung Ting (Mr)
LSE Fellow
Room CBG 3.06 | +44 (0)207 849 4602 | w.l.ting@lse.ac.uk

Portrait photo of Professor Tony Travers

Tony Travers (Prof)
Professor in Practice
+44 (0)207 955 7777 | a.travers@lse.ac.uk

Laura Valentini (Dr)
Associate Professor of Political Science
Room CBG 4.23 | +44 (0)207 107 5407 | l.m.valentini@lse.ac.uk

Joachim Wehner (Dr)
Associate Professor in Public Policy
Room CBG 3.22 | +44 (0)207 955 5408 | j.h.wehner@lse.ac.uk

Stephane Wolton (Dr)
Associate Professor in Political Science
Room CBG 3.40 | +44 (0)207 107 5354 | s.wolton@lse.ac.uk

David Woodruff (Dr)
Associate Professor of Comparative Politics
Room CBG 3.31 | +44 (0)207 955 7282 | d.woodruff@lse.ac.uk

Lea Ypi (Prof)
Professor in Political Theory
Room CBG 4.33 | +44 (0)207 955 7066 | l.l.ypi@lse.ac.uk

Tinghua Yu (Dr)
LSE Fellow
t.yu5@lse.ac.uk

Please note, our student desk is at CBG 3.20 and our opening hours are weekdays, 10:00–12:30 and 13:30–16:00.

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Imran Iqbal (Mr)
Department Manager
Room CBG 3.01 | +44 (0)207 955 7908 | i.iqbal2@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Department Strategy | The Communications, Research and Resources Team | The Teaching Team

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Kate Jessop (Ms)
Deputy Department Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7909 | k.a.jessop@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: The Teaching Team | Teaching Policy | Teaching Resourcing

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Carla Seesunkur (Ms)
Undergraduate Programmes Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 6498 | gov.ug@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Undergraduate Study | Course Choice | Programme Regulations | Exams & Assessment | Student Welfare

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Claire Tomlinson (Ms)
Undergraduate Administrator
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7251 | gov.ug@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Undergraduate Study | UG Moodle & Reading Lists | UG Events | SSLC | UG Research Internships

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Natalie Paris (Ms)
Undergraduate Adviser
Room CBG 3.21 | +44 (0)207 107 5186 | n.paris2@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: UG Student Welfare | Study Skills and Personal Development for UG Students

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Mark Bryceland (Mr)
MSc Programmes Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 6300 | gov.msc@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MSc Programme Administration | Postgraduate Admissions | Assessments & Exams

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Serena James (Ms)
MSc Programme Administrator
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 6060 | gov.msc@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MSc Programme Administration

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Emily Metcalf (Ms)
PhD and Teaching Administrator
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7929 | gov.phd@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: MRes/PhD Programme

Faculty Affairs Team

Kirsty Conway (Ms)
Communications and Events Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7553 | gov.comms@lse.ac.uk

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Karen Dickenson (Mrs)
Finance Officer
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 7748 | gov.finance@lse.ac.uk

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Clair Harrison (Ms)
Faculty Affairs Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 849 4970 | gov.faculty@lse.ac.uk

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Faculty Affairs Administrator
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)20 7106 1199 | gov.faculty@lse.ac.uk

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James Robins (Mr)
Web and Digital Media Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)203 486 2617 | gov.website@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Website | Video & Multimedia Production | GovBlog | Social Media

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Shelly Wilkley (Ms)
Research Manager
Room CBG 3.20 | +44 (0)207 955 6751 | s.a.wilkley@lse.ac.uk

Ask me about: Research

Sarah Harrison (Dr) - Associate Professorial Research Fellow (Electoral Psychology Observatory)
Stephan Kyburz (Dr) - Research Fellow (Spatial Inequalities in African Political Economy)
Moritz Osnabrügge (Dr) - Research Officer (Constrained Democracy: Citizens' Responses to Limited Political Choice in the European Union)
Alice Park - Managing Editor (Democratic Audit) and Assistant Editor (British Public Policy Blog)
Artemis Photiadou - Managing Editor (British Public Policy Blog)
Joshua Townsley - Research Assistant (Democratic Dashboard)
Helena Vieira - Managing Editor (LSE Business Review)

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Max Afnan
m.a.afnan@lse.ac.uk

Johan Ahlback
j.m.ahlback@lse.ac.uk

Kate Alexander Shaw
k.i.alexander@lse.ac.uk

Tom Bailey
t.j.bailey@lse.ac.uk

Jann Boeddeling
Thesis: 'Bending time and breaking structures: Events, spontaneity, and interaction in the 2010/11 Tunisian Uprising'
j.boeddeling@lse.ac.uk

Francesca Boldrini
f.boldrini@lse.ac.uk

Elisa Cencig
Thesis: 'Lobbying across venues in EU financial regulation'
e.cencig@lse.ac.uk

Vanessa Cheng-Matsuno
Thesis: 'Political Instability: Does it Disrupt the Bureaucracy?'
v.cheng-matsuno@lse.ac.uk

Sarah Correia
Thesis: 'Nation-formation as a liminal process: an ethnographic study of the creation and development of Republika Srpska from a local perspective, focusing on the transformation of the town of Bijeljina'
s.m.correia@lse.ac.uk

Iman Dawood
i.s.dawood@lse.ac.uk

Maurice Dunaiski
m.r.dunaiski@lse.ac.uk

Thoraya El-Rayyes
t.el-rayyes@lse.ac.uk

Reuben Finighan
r.finighan@lse.ac.uk

Jared J Finnegan
Thesis: 'Low carbon for the long term: The comparative political economy of climate policy investment'
j.finnegan@lse.ac.uk

Fergus Green
Thesis: 'The political ethics of legal change: A critical-republican solution to the ‘legal transitions problem’'
r.f.green@lse.ac.uk

Hilke Gudel
h.gudel@lse.ac.uk

Omar Hammoud Gallego
Thesis: 'Understanding the Tide: A comparative analysis of policy responses to refugee inflows'
o.hammoud-gallego@lse.ac.uk

Astrid Hampe-Nathaniel
Thesis: 'Time Will Tell – On the Roots and Rectification of Historical Injustice'
a.hampe-nathaniel@lse.ac.uk

Michael Hayle
Thesis: 'Major Public Projects and the Promise of Executive Accountability'
m.p.hayle@lse.ac.uk

Selina Hofstetter
Thesis: 'Making Suffrage Work – The Case of Swiss Female Suffrage in the late 20th Century'
s.hofstetter1@lse.ac.uk

Federica Izzo
Thesis: 'Formal Models of Party Competition: Ideology and Experimentation'
f.izzo@lse.ac.uk

Sarah Jewett
s.jewett1@lse.ac.uk

Max Kiefel
Thesis: '‘For the Many, Not the Few’: the re-organisation of Social Democratic parties'
m.kiefel@lse.ac.uk

Musa Kpaka
h.m.kpaka@lse.ac.uk

Katharina Lawall
Thesis: '“Don’t you know that you’re toxic?”: Party mainstreaming strategies and their effects on voters'
k.lawall@lse.ac.uk

Julia Leschke
j.leschke@lse.ac.uk

McDonald Lewanika
Thesis: 'Campaigning, coercion and clientelism: ZANU-PF’s strategies in Zimbabwe’s presidential elections (2008-13)'
m.lewanika@lse.ac.uk

Giulio Lisi
g.lisi@lse.ac.uk

Antoine Louette
Thesis: 'Systemic Domination'
a.louette@lse.ac.uk

Andrew McNeil

Frieder Mitsch

Miran Norderland
m.a.norderland@lse.ac.uk

Temi Ogunye
Thesis: 'What are individuals’ responsibilities in different conditions of (domestic) injustice?'
t.ogunye@lse.ac.uk

Takuya Onoda
Thesis: 'The politics of drug rationing in England and France'
t.onoda@lse.ac.uk

Alberto Parmigiani
a.parmigiani@lse.ac.uk

Ariel Perkins
a.a.perkins@lse.ac.uk

Ivana Popovic
i.popovic1@lse.ac.uk

Kaveh Pourvand
k.f.pourvand@lse.ac.uk

Elena Pupaza
Thesis: 'Macro-level triggers of electoral behaviour in the United Kingdom'
e.c.pupaza@lse.ac.uk

Laura Robbins-Wright
l.i.robbins-wright@lse.ac.uk

Paola Romero
Thesis: 'Political Willing in Kant'
p.romero@lse.ac.uk

Robert Schuetze
r.schuetze@lse.ac.uk

Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen
Thesis: 'Media Politics in Democracies and Autocracies'
c.sheen@lse.ac.uk

Cain Shelley
c.b.shelley@lse.ac.uk

Jan Stuckatz
Thesis: 'Essays on Corporate Influence in Politics'
j.stuckatz@lse.ac.uk

Carol Thanki
c.thanki2@lse.ac.uk

Arduino Tomasi
Thesis: 'Essays on persuasion and strategic information transmission'
a.a.tomasi@lse.ac.uk

Robert Van Geffen
r.j.van-geffen@lse.ac.uk

Marta Wojciechowska
Thesis: 'Democracy and the Mega-city'
m.wojciechowska@lse.ac.uk

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Emeritus and Retired academic staff

Sebastian Balfour (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Contemporary Spanish Studies
John Barnes (Mr)
Rodney Barker (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Government
John Breuilly (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Nationalism and Ethnicity
John Charvet (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Political Science
Janet Coleman (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
John Gray (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of European Thought
John Madeley (Mr)
George Philip (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Latin American Politics
Ernest Thorp (Mr)

Affiliated academic staff

Michael Barzelay (Prof) - Professor of Public Management
Charlie Beckett (Prof) - Director of Polis
Kenneth Benoit (Prof) - Head of the Methodology Institute
Jean-Paul Faguet (Prof) - Professor of the Political Economy of Development, Department of International Development
Tasha Fairfeld (Dr) - Assistant Professor, Department of International Development
Kevin Featherstone (Prof) - Director, Hellenic Observatory
Benjamin Lauderdale (Dr) - Methodology Institute
Javier Ortega (Prof) - Professor of Economics (Kingston University London)
James Putzel (Prof) - Professor of Development Studies
Ken Shadlen (Prof) - Senior Lecturer in Development Studies
Jonathan White (Prof) - Associate Professor (Reader) of European Politics, European Institute

Visiting academic staff

Andrea Capussela (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2020)
Antoni Rodon - Casarramona (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2021)
John Hutchinson (Dr) - Senior Visiting Fellow (until September 2021)
Geoffrey Meyers (Prof) - Visiting Professor in Practice (until August 2023)
Richard Mottram (Sir) - Visiting Professor (until September 2021)
Javier Ortega (Prof) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until August 2020)
Vesna Popovski (Dr) - Visiting Lecturer
Jill Stuart (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until January 2023) and Dissertation Support Supervisor

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