People

Jane Connors is the United Nations advocate for the rights of victims of sexual exploitation and abuse.

William J Hague, Lord Hague, is co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI).

Angelina Jolie DCMG is Special Envoy of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and co-founder of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI).

Madeleine Rees, OBE, is a British lawyer and current Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Dr Dubravka Šimonovic is United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, its Causes and Consequences.

Patricia Viseur Sellersis an international criminal lawyer and special Advisor for Gender for the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.

Dr. Loveday Hodson Visiting Fellow

Loveday Hodson is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Leicester. Her primary research interest lies in the intersection of international human rights law, gender, and sexuality. She has published widely in the area of women’s rights, as well as on conceptions of LGBT family rights in international law.

Lisa Gormley, Visting Fellow

Lisa is an international lawyer specialising in equality for women and girls, and the obligation of States to eradicate violence against women and girls.

Dr William McInerney, Visiting Fellow

Will is a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security and a former Co-Investigator on the UKRI GCRF Gender, Justice and Security Hub.

Dr Sajjan M Gohel, Visiting Fellow

Sajjan's research interests include looking at the ideology and doctrine that feeds international terrorism.

Dr Diana Koester, Visiting Fellow

Diana focuses on gender and governance, particularly in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

Dr Claire Wilmot, Visiting Fellow

Claire’s research interests range from critical epistemology, affect, and de-colonial theory, to technology, legal institutional ethnography, and other applied studies of power. She currently works as an investigative journalist and a freelance researcher.

Dr Ewa K. Strzelecka, Visiting Fellow

Dr Ewa K. Strzelecka is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the LSE Centre for Women, Peace and Security, an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wrocław, and an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO). She has led multiple research projects on Yemen, including the EU-funded project Rethinking Peacebuilding: Women, Revolution, Exile, and Conflict Resolution in Yemen, an FCDO-funded study on Mapping and Advancing the Women, Peace and Security agenda in Yemen, and UNDP-commissioned research on Women’s local mediation efforts and their linkages to national peace processes. She is the award-winning author of Women in the Arab Spring: The Construction of a Political Culture of Feminist Resistance in Yemen (in Spanish), based on nearly three years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Yemen.

Pragna Patel | Visiting Fellow

Pragna Patel is the co-founder and co-director of Project Resist, an organisation focused on the rights of black and minority women and girls in the UK. She is the former director and founding member of the Southall Black Sisters (SBS), an advocacy and campaigning centre where she worked from 1982 to Jan 2022 with a break in 1993 when she left to train and practice as a solicitor. Over those 40 years, she led SBS on some of its most important cases and campaigns on a range of issues from violence against women, to immigration-related abuse and religious fundamentalism. She was also a founding member of Women Against Fundamentalism and is currently a member of Feminist Dissent. She is the recipient of many awards, including the Bob Hepple Award for contributions to equality in 2015, an honorary doctorate in law from Keele University in 2019, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Criminal Justice Alliance in 2023. Pragna has written extensively on race, gender and religion.

Sherizaan Minwalla | Visiting Fellow

Sherizaan Minwalla is a human rights lawyer and founder of Taboo LLC, a consulting practice focused on ethical engagement with survivors of gender-based violence, access to justice and the rule of law. She has more than two decades of experience in human rights, transitional justice, and immigration law in the United States and Iraq.

Dr Aiko Holvikivi- Lecturer, Department of Gender Studies

Professor Mary Kaldor- Director of the Conflict and Civil Society Research Unit, Department of International Development

Dr Zeynep Kaya - Research Fellow, Middle East Centre

Dr Denisa Kostovicova- Associate Professor in Global Politics, Department of Government

Dr Milli Lake- Assistant Professor of International Relations, Department of International Relations

Dr Katharine M Millar - Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations

Souad Mohamed, Visiting Senior Fellow

Dr Souad Mohamed is a multidisciplinary scholar, CEO and strategic advisor specialising in leadership development. An LSE faculty member (PfAL) and HBR Advisory Council Member. She has led multi-stakeholder global collaborations, designed leadership programmes, and implemented evidence-based solutions aligned with SDG 5 and Africa Agenda 2063. Her work bridges academia, policy, and practice, driving transformative leadership initiatives for a more inclusive and equitable future.

Leadership Development, Partnership Development, Women Advancement and Youth Empowerment

Region of focus: UK, Middle East and Africa