The world's leading social-science university, celebrated across economics, finance, government and international relations, law, sociology, anthropology, philosophy, and statistics.
24 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President and Vice Chancellor
Executive Office
A constitutional scholar and former foundation leader now guiding LSE as its President and Vice Chancellor.
School Professor of Economics and Political Science; W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics
Department of Economics
A leading voice in political economy and development economics whose work connects public policy, institutions, and how states build the capacity to serve people.
A.W. Phillips Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
A macroeconomist who has deepened how the world understands inflation, monetary policy, and central bank balance sheets.
Sir Anthony Atkinson Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
A development economist who studies how incentives and social ties shape work, organisations, and the allocation of talent.
Ronald Coase School Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
An economist of innovation and productivity who has helped explain why some firms and economies grow while others fall behind.
IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government; Chair, Grantham Research Institute
Department of Economics / Grantham Research Institute
The economist behind the landmark Stern Review, who has made the economics of climate change legible to governments worldwide.
Professor of Finance
Department of Finance
A finance scholar whose research on liquidity, asset prices, and market dysfunction has sharpened how we understand financial markets.
Professor of Finance
Department of Finance
An asset pricing scholar whose research spans behavioural finance, asset management, and sustainable investing.
School Professor of Law, Gender and Social Policy
LSE Law School
A criminal law scholar whose comparative and historical work illuminates how societies think about responsibility and punishment.
Professor of Social Psychology, Department of Media and Communications
Department of Media and Communications
A social psychologist devoted to understanding children's lives and rights in the digital age.
Professor of International Relations; Emirates Professor of Contemporary Middle East Studies
Department of International Relations
A scholar of the modern Middle East whose writing and teaching reach readers and students far beyond the academy.
Sutherland Chair in European Institutions
Department of Government
A political scientist whose research on public opinion, elections, and European politics informs public debate.
Princesa de Asturias Chair; Professor of Economic Geography
Department of Geography and Environment
An economic geographer whose work on regional inequality and the 'places that don't matter' has reshaped debates on development and discontent.
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
An anthropologist whose fieldwork on economy, time, and care listens closely to working lives in South Asia and beyond.
Professor of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
A philosopher of decision theory who studies how people reason and choose under uncertainty.
Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
A statistician known for elegant methods to detect change points and structure in time series data.
Albert O. Hirschman Professor of the History and Philosophy of Economics
Department of Economic History
A historian and philosopher of economics who studies how models, measurements, and narratives shape economic knowledge.
Professor of Public Economics
European Institute
An economist of the welfare state whose work on pensions and student finance has influenced policy in many countries.
Professor of Political Science
Department of Government
A political scientist who brings rigorous, data-driven analysis to legislative debate and public policy.
Emeritus Professor of Public Law
LSE Law School
A public law theorist who has spent a career clarifying the foundations of constitutional and administrative law.
Professorial Research Fellow, International Inequalities Institute (formerly Martin White Professor of Sociology)
Department of Sociology / International Inequalities Institute
A sociologist who helped revive the modern study of social class and economic inequality.
Professor Emeritus of Global Governance
Department of International Development
A pioneering thinker on new wars, human security, and global civil society.
Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
A philosopher of science whose work on causation and evidence has shaped how we judge what really works in policy.
Emeritus Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy
Department of Management
The founding head of LSE's Department of Management, whose research spans entrepreneurship and economies in transition.
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