Dr Savvas Verdis

Savvas has been teaching at the London School of Economics for over 20 years where he's launched a number of executive education and graduate level programmes targeted at mayors, city leaders and graduate students. He has most recently worked with a number of Global Philanthropies to influence municipal agendas through executive education on a range of issues from early childhood investment to government innovation.

Savvas is the co-Director of the Executive Masters in Cities, which he co-founded with Philipp Rode. He has helped bring the craft of strategic communications to the school's undergraduate curriculum via the LSE 100, LSE LIFE & LSE Laidlaw programmes. Over the last decade he has worked with over 500 graduate students on a case method led course on the political analysis of urban projects. He was recently voted in apolitical’s 100 most influential academics in Government.

From 2009 to 2012, he was founder and CEO of Rankdesk, a rating and valuation composite index for home buyers based on over 40 social and environmental parameters. From 2013 to 2016 he was Director of Infrastructure Economics at Siemens.

He completed his PhD at Cambridge University in 2007 and trained as a development economist at UCL's Development Planning Unit.

Publications

Full publications listed on LSE Research Online

Expertise

Campaigning, Public Narrative, Cities Leadership

• Executive MSc in Cities, Co-Director, 2016 -
• Executive Short Course | Cities: Governance, Planning and Design, Co-Director, 2014 -
• Urban95 Academy, Co-Director, 2021 –
• PP4A4E Cities and the Economy, 2016 –
• PP4A5E Urban Infrastructure and Strategic Planning, 2016 -
• PP4A7E Executive MSc in Cities Consultancy Project, 2016 -
• PP465: City Making: The Politics of Urban Form. 2009 -