Prof. Giles Atkinson (Professor of Environmental Policy). An environmental economist by training, Prof. Atkinson has published extensively on the sustainability of economic development, examining how policy-makers can construct better measures of economic progress through, for example, wealth accounting and natural capital accounting.
Prof. Robin Burgess (Professor of Economics). Prof. Burgess's main interests are in the areas of environmental economics, development economics and political economy and he is currently working in Bangladesh, Brazil, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Myanmar, Pakistan, South Korea and Uganda.
Prof. Bart Cammaerts (Professor of Politics and Communication). Prof. Cammaerts' current research focuses on the relationship between media, communication and resistance with particular emphasis on media strategies of activists, media representations of protest, alternative counter-cultures and broader issues relating to power, participation and public-ness.
Lisa Derand (Department of Media and Communications) investigates the mediation practices of Indigenous organisations in Peru, that is their use and appropriation of various media to express themselves. She focuses on the relationship between the discursive and material aspects of organisations’ mediation practices and their strategic meaning-making.
Prof. Veerle Heyvaert (Professor of Law). Prof. Heyvaert has published extensively on issues of transnational environmental law and risk regulation, including books on Transnational Environmental Regulation and Governance. Purpose, Strategies and Principles and European Environmental Law.
Dr. Armine Ishkanian (Associate Professor of Social Policy). Dr. Ishkanian's research examines the relationship between civil society, democracy, development, and social transformation. She has examined how civil society organisations and social movements engage in policy processes and transformative politics in a number of countries.
Dr. Katarzyna Mikołajczak (Research Officer in Conservation and Behaviour, Grantham Institute). Dr. Mikołajczak is an interdisciplinary conservation scientist, whose interests lie at the nexus between social and ecological sciences, with the aim of improving biodiversity conservation to benefit both people and nature.
Prof. Eric Neumayer (Professor of Environment and Development) is the LSE Pro-Director for Planning and Resources. An economist by training, his research interests include conflict, economic development, environment, evidence-based public policy, globalisation, human development and migration.
Dr. Andrea Pia (Assistant Professor of Anthropology). Dr. Pia is a legal and environmental anthropologist working at the interface between political economy, development, and the critical study of the commons. His regional focus over the last 15 years has been the People’s Republic of China.
Prof. Wendy Sigle (Professor of Gender and Family Studies). Prof. Sigle has worked on a variety of issues related to families and family policy in historical and contemporary societies. Her quantitative research applies both econometric and demographic methods to the analysis of secondary survey data or data drawn from official government records.
Prof. Lord Nicholas Stern (Professor of Economics and Government) is the Chair of the Grantham Institute, Chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy, and former President of the Royal Economic Society, British Academy and European Economic Association. As the head of the Stern Review of the Economics of Climate Change, his work had a seminal impact on climate policy in the UK and worldwide.