People
Who's who in the Department of International Relations
Professor J Chris Alden
Professor of International Relations
Deputy Head of Department (PhD and Research)
Director of LSE IDEASRoom: Floor 9, Pankhurst House (PAN.9)
+44 (0)20 7955 7386
j.c.alden@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Foreign Policy Analysis, China and Africa, South African foreign policy, post-conflict reconstruction
Dr Martin Bayly
Associate Professor, International Relations TheoryRoom: CBG.9.13
+44 (0)20 7107 5143
m.j.bayly@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Historical International Relations, Historical Sociology, Constructivism
Dr Federica Bicchi
Associate Professor
Programme Director, Sciences-Po-LSE Double Degree in Affaires Internationales and IR/IPE
Director of the European Foreign Policy UnitRoom: CBG.9.11
+44 (0)20 7955 7987
f.c.bicchi@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: European foreign policy; Diplomacy; Digital Diplomacy; The "practice turn" in International Relations; European External Action Service; Euro-Mediterranean relations
Dr Ida Roland Birkvad
LSE FellowRoom: CBG.8.13
+44 (0) 20 7107 5362
i.birkvad@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International relations theory; postcolonial theory; history; gender and sexuality studies; South Asia
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Charlie Carter
IRD FellowRoom: STC.S212
c.carter3@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Quantitative text analysis; network analysis; International institutions
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Jeffrey Chwieroth
Professor of International Relations, IPE
Head of DepartmentRoom: CBG.10.12
+44 (0)20 7955 7209
j.m.chwieroth@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: international political economy of money and finance
Dr Katerina Dalacoura
Associate Professor, and Director of the LSE Middle East CentreRoom: CBG.9.14
+44 (0)20 7955 7398
k.dalacoura@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Islamist thought; Turkey; the Middle East and IR theory; the international politics of culture and religion; global IR
Dr Shikha Dilawri
LSE FellowRoom: CBG.10.08
+44 (0)20 7955 7185
s.dilawri@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Postcolonial theory; South Asia and its Diaspora; Racial Capitalism; International Relations Theory; Global Historical Sociology; Cultural Studies; Infrastructure; Minority Rights
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Toby Dodge
Professor of International RelationsRoom: CBG.9.02
+44 (0)20 7955 6176
b.t.dodge@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Iraq, Middle East, state formation, international relations, regime change
Dr Spyros Economides
Associate Professor
also in The European InstituteRoom: CBG.5.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7384
s.economides@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: European foreign, security and defence policies, Western Balkans, Greece
Professor Robert Falkner
Professor of International Relations, IPE
Programme Director, MSc IPE / IPE Research
Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBARoom: CBG.8.02
+44 (0)20 7955 6347
r.falkner@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Global Environmental Politics, Climate Policy, Political Economy, Global Firms
Dr Jasmine Gani
Assistant ProfessorRoom: CBG.8.10
j.k.gani@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Anticolonialism, Empire, History, Political Theory, Race, Middle East
Professor Fawaz A Gerges
Professor of International RelationsRoom: CBG.10.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7393
f.gerges@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International Relations Middle East, Domestic Politics Middle East States
on leave academic year 2025/26
Dr Anna Getmansky
Associate ProfessorRoom: CBG.8.05
+44 (0)20 7107 5265
a.getmansky@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Conflict, terrorism, refugees
Dr Patrick Gill-Tiney
LSE FellowRoom: CBG.10.01
+44 (0)20 7106 1954
p.gill-tiney@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Major Powers, International Order, International Security, United Nations
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Teona Giuashvili
David Davies of Llandinam Research Fellow (DINAM)Room: CBG.9.16
t.giuashvili@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Political and Security developments in Eastern Europe; Russia’s war against Ukraine; EU, US and NATO policies towards the region; Black Sea Security
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Sinja Graf
Assistant ProfessorRoom: CBG.8.06
+44 (0)20 7107 5067
s.graf@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International Theory, International Politlcal Thought, International (Criminal) Law and Imperialism, Violence and Global Order
Dr Jürgen Haacke
Associate ProfessorRoom: CBG.9.01
+44 (0)20 7955 7399
j.haacke@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International politics and security of Southeast Asia including great power relations, ASEAN regionalism and regional order, politics and foreign policy of Burma/Myanmar, foreign policy analysis
Dr Jonny Hall
LSE FellowRoom: CBG.9.04
+44 (0)20 7106 1966
j.hall5@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: US foreign policy analysis, public opinion, war, international security
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Mark Hoffman
Professor (Education)
Associate Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for EducationRoom: OLD.1.09
+44 (0)20 7107 5197
m.hoffman@lse.ac.ukResearch interests: Critical international relations theory; critical peace studies; role of third parties in peace process.
Mark Hoffman is not taking on new PhD students
Dr Jennifer Jackson-Preece
Associate Professor
Also in The European InstituteRoom: CBG.7.05
+44 (0)20 7955 6109
j.jackson-preece@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: European Security, Multiculturalism, North America
Dr David K Johnson
LSE Fellow in IPERoom: CBG.9.08
+44 (0)20 7955 7705
d.k.johnson@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: IR theory; global political economy; historical IR; empire and global order; US foreign policy; history of capitalism; qualitative and interpretivist methodologies
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Sophie Kaldor
IRD FellowRoom: STC.S212
s.a.kaldor@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International Security, Rationality and Behavioral Psychology, Foreign Policy Decision-making, Narratives
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Nikhil Kalyanpur
Assistant Professor, IPERoom: CBG.8.04
+44 (0)20 7107 5068
n.kalyanpur@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Economic statecraft, business-government relations, global governance
Dr Lucy Kneebone
LSE Fellow+44 (0)20 7955 7409
Room: CBG.9.08
l.kneebone@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: migration studies, border studies, critical theory, postcolonial theory
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Mathias Koenig-Archibugi
Professor
also in the Government DepartmentRoom:CBG.3.38
+44 (0)20 7955 7193
m.koenig-archibugi@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International organisations, Global public policy, Democracy
Professor Milli Lake
Professor in International RelationsRoom: CBG.8.03
+44 (0)20 7955 7379
m.lake@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Civil wars, political violence, security, state-building, rule of law, governance, Sub-Saharan Africa
On leave Autumn Term 2025
Professor Tomila Lankina
Professor in International RelationsRoom: CBG.10.13
+44 (0)20 7107 5239
t.lankina@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Democratization, Popular Protest, Russia, Eastern Europe
on leave academic year 2025/26
Dr Boram Lee
Assistant Professor, IPE
Director of the International Trade Policy UnitRoom: CBG.8.09
+44 (0)20 7107 5118
b.lee14@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Trade, International Institution, Environment, Globalisation
Julie Lespinasse
IRD FellowRoom: CBG.10.07
j.l.lespinasse@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International Organisations; Democratisation; Public Policy; Development; the Politics of Inequality
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Oksana Levkovych
LSE Fellow in IPERoom: CBG.9.06
o.levkovych@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International political economy (IPE), power transitions (UK-US, US-China), trade
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Sichen Li
Assistant Professor in International RelationsRoom: CBG.9.03
s.li172@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: High-tech commercial and industrial policy, economic statecraft, FDI, US-China relations
Professor Jens Meierhenrich
Professor of International RelationsRoom: CBG.10.04
+44 (0)20 7955 7394
j.meierhenrich@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Rule of law, transitional justice, international criminal law, authoritarianism, genocide
Dr Jack Mellish
IRD FellowRoom: CBG.9.06
j.r.mellish@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International Relations Theory; English School Theory; Cold War History; The Non-Aligned Movement; South-South Cooperation; The Emergence of Post-Colonial States; Just War Theory; Ethics
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Katharine Millar
Associate ProfessorRoom: CBG.8.13
+44 (0)20 7955 6788
k.m.millar@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Gender & international politics
on leave Autumn and Winter Term 2025/26
Dr John Minnich
Assistant Professor, IPERoom: CBG.9.05
j.minnich@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Rise of China, industrial and technology policy, US-China relations
Dr James Morrison
Associate Professor, IPE
Deputy Head of Department (Teaching and Learning)Room: CBG.9.12
+44 (0)20 7955 7171
j.a.morrison@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International political economy, ideas and intellectuals in foreign policy, international organisation, history of political and economic thought, British economic history, and early American history.
Dr Rohan Mukherjee
Assistant Professor
Deputy Director of LSE IDEASRoom: CBG.9.07
+44 (0)20 7955 6157
r.mukherjee@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Rising Powers, International Order, International Security, Asia-Pacific
Dr Natalya Naqvi
Assistant Professor, IPERoom: CBG.8.01
+44 (0)20 7107 5189
n.naqvi@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Economic development, role of the state, finance, industrial policy, globalisation
on leave until Autumn Term 2026
Dr Victoria Paniagua
Assistant Professor, IPERoom: CBG.8.14
+44 (0)20 7106 1965
v.paniagua@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: political economy, development, redistribution, inequality, interest group politics, state-building
on leave Autumn and Winter Term 2025/26
Dr María Sol Parrales López
LSE Fellow in IPERoom: CBG.10.07
m.s.parrales-lopez@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: political economy, development, business power, business groups, leftist governments, inequality
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Katherine Pye
IRD FellowRoom: STC.S213
k.a.pye@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Intervention, security assistance, EU in Africa, meaning making
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr McKenzie Ratner
LSE Fellow in IPERoom: CBG.9.04
+44 (0)20 7955 7167
m.m.ratner@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International Institutions, International Political Economy, Compliance and Conditionality, Global Governance, Quantitative Methods
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Howie Rechavia-Taylor
LSE FellowRoom: CBG.10.08
+44 (0)20 7955 6887
h.rechavia-taylor@lse.ac.ukKey expertise:
Race and Empire; Jewish international politics; Palestine/Israel; Ethnography; Gender and Sexuality; Global Fascisms; Postcolonial Germany; Land and Housing
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Stephanie Schwartz
Assistant ProfessorRoom: CBG.8.07
+44 (0)20 7955 6978
s.schwartz@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Forced Migration, Peace and Conflict, African Politics, Qualitative Methods
Dr Giulia Sciorati
LSE FellowRoom: CBG.10.01
+44 (0)20 7107 5694
g.sciorati@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Narrative power; Visual international politics; Political instrumentalisation of historical memory; Cultural and heritage diplomacy; International Politics of China; China-Central Asia relations
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Ulrich Sedelmeier
Professor
Programme Director, MSc International RelationsRoom: CBG.10.02
+44 (0)20 7955 7166
u.sedelmeier@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International institutions, European Union, compliance, conditionality
Dr Mehdi Shakarchi
IRD FellowRoom: STC.S213
m.shakarchi@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: informal labour; precarious labour; class and social mobilisation
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor John Sidel
Sir Patrick Gillam Professor of International and Comparative Politics jointly in the Government Department
Director of Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia CentreRoom: CBG.3.35
+44 (0)20 7955 6032
j.t.sidel@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Southeast Asia, Islam in World Politics, Transnational Social Movements, Political Economy of Transport Infrastructure
Professor Karen E. Smith
Professor of International RelationsRoom:CBG.10.14
+44 (0)20 7955 6332
k.e.smith@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: EU foreign policy, EU-UN relations, human rights, genocide, Brexit
Dr Theresa Squatrito
Associate ProfessorRoom: CBG.8.08
+44 (0)20 7106 1213
t.j.squatrito@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International organisations and law, international courts, global governance, civil society and NGOs, human rights
Dr Luca Tardelli
Associate Professor (Education) and Departmental Tutor
Programme Director, BSc IRRoom: CBG.10.05
+44 (0)20 7107 5706
l.tardelli@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International security, Military intervention, US foreign policy, Realism
Mariah Thornton
IRD FellowRoom: STC.S213
m.thornton1@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Taiwanese politics, Chinese politics, cross-Strait relations
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Professor Peter Trubowitz
Professor of International Relations, also Head of Phelan United States Research Centre and Dean ofRoom: CBG.10.16
+44 (0)20 7107 6945
p.trubowitz@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International security, US foreign policy, American politics
Professor James Walters
Professor in Practice
Director of LSE Faith Centre
Director of Religion and Global Society Research UnitRoom: 1POR .1.02
+44 (0)20 7955 7965
j.walters2@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: Religion, Interfaith Relations, Religious Conflict, Theology
As a professor in practice Professor Walters is available as a co-supervisor for doctoral research
Dr Peter Wilson
Associate ProfessorRoom: CBG.10.11
+44 (0)20 7955 7391
p.c.wilson@lse.ac.ukKey expertise: International relations theory, especially the English school; the theory and practice of international relations during the interwar period.
Dr Wilson is not taking on new PhD students
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The IR Department PSS team are working flexibly. In the first instance it is always best to contact the PSS team via online meetings or email.
If you have a specific query relating to your programme of study, please initially email ir.programmes@lse.ac.uk or ir.research@lse.ac.uk as appropriate.
Please also check the Student Handbooks on Moodle which may provide the answers to your questions.
Amy Brook
PhD Programme Co-ordinatorAsk me about: PhD Programme, Staff-Research Student Liaison Committee, PhD Sub-Committee, PhD/research finance administration, programme regulations, student advice and queries, Moodle, MyAdjustments
Room: CBG.10.09
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Head of Programme DeliveryAsk me about: planning, delivering, developing and managing undergraduate and taught postgraduate programmes, as well as teaching resourcing.
Room: CBG.10.09
m.bryceland@lse.ac.uk
Hermione Burnett
Programmes ManagerAsk me about: operational management and service delivery of the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including day-to-day programme oversight.
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IR Website and Blog EditorAsk me about: Website design and management, Web updates, Department's blog
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PhD and Research ManagerAsk me about: PhD Programme, Research Excellence Framework, Research Sub-Committee, Research funding, Knowledge Exchange and Impact, Research Dissemination
Room: CBG.10.09
ir.research@lse.ac.uk
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Room: CBG.10.09
Use this webpage to find out more and make an appointment with me
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Programmes Co-ordinatorAsk me about: day-to-day administration of the MSc IR programme, undergraduate and postgraduate assessment matters, exam sub-boards, Moodle, Staff-Student Liaison Committees (SSLCs), My Adjustments, course selection, general student enquiries.
Room: CBG.10.09
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Events Co-ordinatorAsk me about: Department public events and workshops, student events
Room: CBG.10.09
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Department Affairs Co-ordinatorAsk me about: Finances, HR and Recruitment, Departmental Policy and Processes, Facilities Management (incl Meeting room bookings)
Room: CBG.10.09
r.mokogwu@lse.ac.uk
Finn Robertson
Programmes Co-ordinatorAsk me about: day-to-day administration of the BSc IR programme, undergraduate and postgraduate assessment matters, exam sub-boards, Moodle, Staff-Student Liaison Committees (SSLCs), My Adjustments, course selection, general student enquiries.
Room: CBG.10.09
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Amanda Schultz
Communications and Engagement ManagerAsk me about: Student Experience, Student Events, IR Public Events, Widening Participation, Alumni, Undergraduate Research Assistantship, IR Careers Internship, National Student Survey, Undergraduate and Postgraduate Student Surveys
Room: CBG.10.09
ir.comms@lse.ac.uk
Andrew Sherwood
Department ManagerAsk me about: Strategy and development of the department, planning and management of departmental resources (human, financial and accommodation), liaision with central services, leadership of the PSS team and its development, quality assurance, governance and compliance, legal issues and critical incidents
Room: CBG.10.06
a.sherwood@lse.ac.uk
Rosie Springett
Programmes Co-ordinatorAsk me about: day-to-day administration of the MSc IPE programme, undergraduate and postgraduate assessment matters, exam sub-boards, Moodle, Staff-Student Liaison Committees (SSLCs), My Adjustments, course selection, general student enquiries.
Room: CBG.10.09
ir.programmes@lse.ac.uk
Professor Youssef M Choueiri
Visiting ProfessorKey expertise: Civil Law, Middle East, Political theory, Nationalism, Fundamentalism, Political Secularism, Historiography, Civil society
Not available to supervise PhD students
Hassan Damluji
Visiting Senior FellowKey expertise: Global Health, philanthropy, development finance, diplomacy, public attitudes
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu
Visiting Senior FellowKey expertise: The political effects of natural resources in Caspian Sea Basin regions and the correlation between corruption and authoritarianism, rentier's state, and challenges for the transition into democracy.
Not available to supervise PhD students
Ameer Kotecha
Visiting Senior FellowProfile coming soon
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Irene Morlino
Visiting FellowKey expertise: EU humanitarian aid, EU-UN relations, EU security and defence; International Organisations (IOs)
Not available to supervise MPhil/PhD students
Dr Anahita Motazed Rad
Visiting Senior FellowKey expertise: Iran, Middle East Political Affairs, Development of Trans-Regional Powers Relations in the Middle East
Not available to supervise PhD students
Silvia Pepino
Visiting Senior FellowKey expertise: Global Money and Finance, Sovereign States and Global Capital Markets, Digital Innovation and Geopolitics, Governance and Credibility, Global Macroeconomic Outlook, Financial Stability and Risk, Monetary and Financial Policy, Green Finance
Not available to supervise PhD students
Dr Stephen Woolcock
Associate Professor
Visiting Associate in International Trade Policy Unit
2025/26
- Gaston Bronstering
g.l.bronstering@lse.ac.uk - Manas Chawla
m.chawla5@lse.ac.uk - Alexander J Davies
a.j.davies1@lse.ac.uk - Nilüfer Gunes
n.gunes@lse.ac.uk - Harry Halem
h.b.halem@lse.ac.uk - Katharina Klaube
k.e.klaube@lse.ac.uk - Kazimier Lim
k.y.lim1@lse.ac.uk - Partha Moman
p.a.moman@lse.ac.uk - Terrence Mullan
t.mullan@lse.ac.uk - Leon Sinfield
l.sinfield@lse.ac.uk - Andi Sparringa
a.p.sparringa@lse.ac.uk
2025/26
- Sophia Anders
s.m.anders@lse.ac.uk - Dr Italo Brandimarte
italo.brandimarte@kcl.ac.uk - Dr Jeff Hawn
j.s.hawn@lse.ac.uk - Dr Ian Higham
i.g.higham@lse.ac.uk - Dr Rehan Jamil
r.r.jamil@lse.ac.uk - Arthur Kilgore
a.r.kilgore@lse.ac.uk - Dr Lanibi La Lova
l.lalova@lse.ac.uk - Dr Renad Mansour
rmansour@chathamhouse.org - Professor Alvaro Mendez
a.mendez@lse.ac.uk - Dr Anahita Motazed-Rad
a.motazed-rad@lse.ac.uk - Dr David Rampton
d.l.rampton@lse.ac.uk
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