People

Head of Department
Professor Sara Hobolt
gov.hod@lse.ac.uk

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

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

Faculty Enquiries
gov.faculty@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7908

Undergraduate Enquiries
gov.ug@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 6498

Postgraduate Enquiries
gov.msc@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 6300

PhD Enquiries
gov.phd@lse.ac.uk | +44 (0)207 955 7929

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Please note, our student desk is at CBG 3.20 and our opening hours are weekdays, 10.00am to 12.30pm and 1.30pm to 4.00pm.

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Education Team

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Faculty Affairs Team

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Guest Teachers

Stuart Bramwell (GV101)

Sarah Goff (GV4D7, GV4H3 and GV4H4)

Alexander McKenna (GV311)

Geoffrey Myers (GV343 and GV488)

Jill Stuart (GV343, GV344 and GV499)

Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs)

Luqman Abu El Foul (GV248)

Camilo Acero Vargas (GV248)

Christian Cervellera (GV225)

Matt Davies (GV262)

Daniel Guelen (GV100)

Isolde Hegemann (GV264)

Kristof Horvath (GV245 and GV248)

Gaetano Inglese (GV264)

Anton Könneke (GV249)

Lara (Charlotte) Kuberka (GV249)

Roni Küppers (GV245)

Luca Marsico (GV100 and GV225)

Benedetta Morari (GV251)

Ellen Munroe (GV3L6)

Oscar Nowlan (GV263)

Barnaby Pepin (GV100)

Carla Rivera Blanco (GV262)

Andrea Telò (GV264)

Lorenzo Vicari (GV101)

Jack Wilkinson (GV100)

Khairulanwar Zaini (GV262)

Maham Zaman (GV263)

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Luqman Abu El Foul
Thesis: 'Palestine up in Arms: Contentious Politics and the Arab Revolt of 1936-1939'
l.abu-el-foul@lse.ac.uk

Meshal Alkhowaiter
Thesis: 'How targeted economic policies shape government approval in non-democratic and rentier countries'
m.alkhowaiter@lse.ac.uk

Laurence Antao
l.a.antao@lse.ac.uk

Anusha Arumugam (MRes Student)
a.arumugam1@lse.ac.uk

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Nia Bolland (MRes Student)
n.c.bolland@lse.ac.uk

Luis Bosshart
Thesis: 'Essays in coming to terms with the past: Transitional justice and memory in postwar Germany'
l.s.bosshart@lse.ac.uk

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Christian Cervellera
Thesis: 'Essays on Political Inequality'
c.cervellera@lse.ac.uk

Morris Chan
Thesis: 'The Democratic Bubble: Subnational Opposition Enclaves within Dominant-Party Electoral Autocracies'
m.s.chan1@lse.ac.uk

Joel Chong
Thesis: 'Disenchanting the Divine'
j.z.chong@lse.ac.uk

Asli Ceren Cinar
Thesis: 'Power of Perception: Unveiling the Multidimensional Dynamics of Candidate Preference'
a.cinar@lse.ac.uk

Cristina Conesa Pla
Thesis: 'Thinking Diversity: Indigenous Resurgence and the Case of Sumak Kawsay'
c.conesa-pla@lse.ac.uk

Julia Costet
Thesis: 'Speaking Rape: Engaging Experience for a Feminist Social Practice of Rape Survivorship'
j.costet@lse.ac.uk

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Matt Davies
Thesis: 'Preserving “the alien thing”: algorithmic intermediaries, capitalism, and human agency'
m.o.davies@lse.ac.uk

Maryam Dharas
m.k.dharas@lse.ac.uk

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Maximilian Fink
m.f.fink@lse.ac.uk

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Lauren Gildenhuys (MRes Student)
l.i.gildenhuys@lse.ac.uk

Benjamin Ginsburg Hix (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'The drivers of radical right support among young men'
b.d.ginsburg-hix@lse.ac.uk

Weiheng Guan (MRes Student)
w.guan1@lse.ac.uk

Hilke Gudel
h.gudel@lse.ac.uk

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Martin Haus
Thesis: 'Three Essays on Bureaucracy and Public Service Provision in Rural India'
m.haus@lse.ac.uk

Isolde Hegemann
i.h.hegemann@lse.ac.uk

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Angga Indraswara
Thesis: 'Beyond Numerical Inferiority: The Politics of Catholic and Protestant Minorities in Indonesia'
a.indraswara@lse.ac.uk

Gaetano Inglese
Thesis: 'Essays on the Politics of Unmet Expectations'
g.inglese@lse.ac.uk

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Sarah Jewett
s.jewett1@lse.ac.uk

Zhencheng (Jensen) Jiang (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'Internal Migration in Authoritarian Regimes'
z.jiang28@lse.ac.uk

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Yusuf Imaad Khan
y.i.khan@lse.ac.uk

Anton Könneke
a.konneke@lse.ac.uk

Lara Charlotte (Charlotte) Kuberka
Thesis: 'Networks, Neighborhoods and Place-Based Identities Across the Urban-Rural Divide and their Effect on Political Behaviour'
l.kuberka@lse.ac.uk

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Rune Wriedt Larsen
Thesis: 'Civil War, Statebuilding, and Types of Armed Organisations in Southeast Asia'
r.w.larsen@lse.ac.uk

Tiffany Lau
t.t.lau@lse.ac.uk

Nick Lewis
Thesis: 'Social media and democratic deliberation'
n.lewis3@lse.ac.uk

Yueying (Rory) Li (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'Probing the Ethics of Development Aid: a Case Study of Kenya'
y.li441@lse.ac.uk

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Xufan (Nadia) Ma
Thesis: 'Reading Li Xiaojiang: The Politics of Sexual Difference'
x.ma19@lse.ac.uk

Luca Marsico
l.marsico@lse.ac.uk

Lennard Metson
Thesis: 'Relational campaigning: the role of campaigns in shaping social influence'
l.m.metson@lse.ac.uk

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Oscar Nowlan
Thesis: 'Blame Avoidance and Blame Attribution in Government'
o.w.nowlan@lse.ac.uk

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Emma Obermair
Thesis: 'Critically rethinking scientific production'
e.obermair@lse.ac.uk

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Michal Pasovsky
Thesis: (TBD) 'Multitudes of Denial in a Settler-Colonial State'
m.pasovsky@lse.ac.uk

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Diego Sazo
Thesis: 'The Violent Disconnection: Broken Societies and the Logic of Civil Disorder in Latin America'
d.n.sazo-munoz@lse.ac.uk

Asfa Shakeel
Thesis: '
a.shakeel2@lse.ac.uk

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Theint Theint Thu
Thesis: 'The Politics of Public Service Provision in Fragile States'
t.thu@lse.ac.uk

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Tarsha Vasu
Thesis: 'Politics, Gender and Development in India'
t.vasu@lse.ac.uk

Lorenzo Vicari
l.vicari@lse.ac.uk

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Stephanie Wanga
Thesis: 'The State and its Competitors in African Political Thought'
s.s.wanga@lse.ac.uk

Jan Henrik Wasserziehr
Thesis: 'The Death of the Modern Self: The Technological Remaking of Humanity as a Philosophical Problem'
j.h.wasserziehr@lse.ac.uk

Felix Westerén
Thesis: 'Preserving value in the face of climate change: a pluralist account'
f.j.westeren@lse.ac.uk

Jack Wilkinson
Thesis: 'Critical Social Epistemology'
j.j.wilkinson@lse.ac.uk

Peter Wyckoff
Thesis: 'Employment, climate policy and legislative politics'
p.s.wyckoff@lse.ac.uk

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Alex Yeandle
Thesis: 'Information and Electoral Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa'
a.r.yeandle@lse.ac.uk

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Khairulanwar Zaini
k.zaini@lse.ac.uk

Yiwen Zhang (MRes Student)
Thesis: 'Can the Welfare State Break Free from the Inequality Trap?'
y.zhang539@lse.ac.uk

Emeritus | Affiliated | Visiting

Emeritus and Retired academic staff

• Sebastian Balfour (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Contemporary Spanish Studies
• John Barnes (Mr)
• 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
• Patrick Dunleavy (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Public Policy
• John Gray (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of European Thought
• Chun Lin (Prof) - Emeritus Professor in Comparative Politics
• John Madeley (Mr)
• Anne Phillips (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science
• David Soskice (Prof) - Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Economics
• 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
• Eiko Thielemann (Dr) - Associate Professor in Political Science and Public Policy
• Jonathan White (Prof) - Associate Professor (Reader) of European Politics, European Institute

Visiting academic staff

• David Banisar (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until May 2026)
• Andrea Capussela (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until April 2026)
• Rekgotsofetse Chikane (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2025)
• Francesco Esposito (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until August 2026)
• Federico Fuchs (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2026)
• Efe Gurcan (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until September 2025)
• Mark Hallerberg (Prof) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until August 2026)
• Omar Hammound Gallego (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2027)
• Helios Herrera (Prof) - Visiting Professor (until August 2026)
• Hiroaki Itai (Prof) - Visiting Professor (until March 2026)
• Toby James (Prof) - Visiting Professor (until December 2025)
• Matthias Krönke (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until October 2026)
• Seonghui Lee (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until December 2025)
• Geoffrey Myers (Prof) - Visiting Professor in Practice (until August 2026)
• Antoni Rodon-Casarramona (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until December 2025)
• Nelson Ruiz (Dr) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until May 2026)
• Lukas Slothuus (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2025)
• Christine Stedtnitz (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until March 2027)
• Jill Stuart (Dr) - Visiting Fellow (until September 2026)
• Denise van der Kamp (Prof) - Visiting Senior Fellow (until August 2027)