Team

Dr Grace Lordan is the Founding Director of The Inclusion Initiative and an Associate Professor at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Grace is an economist and her research is focused on quantifying the benefits of inclusion within and across firms, as well as designing interventions that level the playing field for under-represented talent within firms.  

Grace served as an expert advisor to the UK government sitting on their skills and productivity board, is currently a member of the UK government’s BEIS social mobility taskforce and is on the Women in Finance Charter’s advisory board. Grace the £2 million ESRC funded Diversity and Productivity from Education to Work (DAPEW) project. 

Her academic writings have been published in top international journals and she has written for the Financial Times, Fortune, Fast Company, MIT Sloan Management Review , Reuters and Harvard Business Review. Grace is a regular speaker and advisor to blue chip finance and technology firms.  

Pamela Blackmon is Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona. Her research areas include international political economy with a focus on the international financial and trade institutions. Current research projects include examining the increase of female leadership in the European Central Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Trade Organization and, thus, implications for gendered policy frameworks. She is the author of The Political Economy of Trade Finance (Routledge, 2017) and In the Shadow of Russia (Michigan State University Press, 2011). She has published articles in International Studies Review, The International Trade Journal, Third World Quarterly, Global Society and Women’s Studies among others.

Rosa Balfour is director of Carnegie Europe. Her fields of expertise include European politics, institutions, and foreign and security policy. Balfour is also a member of the steering committee of Women in International Security Brussels (WIIS-Brussels). Prior to joining Carnegie Europe, Balfour was a senior fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was also director of the Europe in the World program at the European Policy Centre in Brussels and has worked as a researcher in Rome and London.

Henriette Müller is Assistant Professor of Gender, Governance and Society at New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). Focusing on gender and women’s leadership, her research encompasses the comparative study of political leadership both at the national and international level, as well as across different political systems and sociocultural contexts. She is the author of Political Leadership and the European Commission Presidency (Oxford University Press, 2020), as well as the co-editor of Women and Leadership in the European Union (Oxford University Press, 2022) together with Ingeborg Tömmel; two special issues on The Role of Leadership in EU Politics and Policy-Making (West European Politics, 2020 43/5) together with Femke A.W.J. van Esch; as well as Women Opposition Leaders: Pathways, Patterns and Performance (Politics & Governance, forthcoming 2023 11/1) together with Sarah C. Dingler and Ludger Helms.

Kamya Choudhary is an India Policy Fellow working on climate policy with a particular focus on renewable energy, climate finance and transition to zero emissions  She’s currently supporting the India-UK Track II Dialogue on Climate Change and Energy.

Prior to joining Grantham Research Institute, she was an interdisciplinary social scientist conducting qualitative research on renewable energy solutions for farming in India. She holds an MSc and PhD in International Development from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. She pursued her bachelors degree in Political Science from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University

Ingvild Bode is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern Denmark. She is also the Principal Investigator of an ERC research project on autonomous weapons systems and international norms (AUTONORMS). She is furthermore Associate Editor of Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations.

Ingvild's research agenda covers the area of peace and security, with a theoretical focus combining practice theories and constructivist International Relations. She is principally interested in analysing processes of policy and normative change, especially in the areas of weaponised Artificial Intelligence, the use of force, United Nations peacekeeping, and more general dynamics of the UN Security Council.