Dr Jon Lunn

Dr Jon Lunn is a Guest Teacher in the Department of International Development at LSE. A historian by training, Jon secured a PhD from Oxford University for a study of the colonial railway system in the Rhodesias in 1987, publishing it as a monograph in 1997 as Capital and Labour on the Rhodesian Railway System, 1890-1947. His research since then has been mainly in the context of policy or advocacy work for a wide range of organisations, most recently for the UK House of Commons Research Service, where, until the end of 2020, he provided briefings on international affairs and international development issues for Members of Parliament and their staff. In August 2023, he published a novel entitled ‘Importunity’, a powerful exploration of the evils of settler colonialism.

Selected publications

• Importunity, Carnelian Heart Publishing, August 2023
• Kashmir: the effects of revoking Article 370 (August 2019)
• UK aid: frequently asked questions (May 2019)
• The Anglophone Cameroon crisis: April 2019 update
• Prospects for the second US-North Korea summit (February 2019)
• Somalia: January 2019 update
• Capital and Labour on the Rhodesian Railway System, 1890-1947 (Palgrave Macmillan, 1997)

Expertise

African History; African politics; international development; Asian politics; UK foreign policy