Steering Group

Priyanka Kumar  

Priyanka is Co-Chair of LSE Power, organising and chairing the Steering Group meetings, lobbying the School Management Committee for Power priorities, and establishing senior allies. She is also the elected representative across all the Staff Networks at the School's Inclusion Management Board (IMB), which is the decision-making body which determines the strategy and priorities for EDI at LSE.

She works in the Educate for Global Impact (EGI) remit as the EGI Strategy and Portfolio Support Officer, handling the strategy delivery of student experience at LSE working across services divisions like Eden, ARD, Communications, Careers, and the Executive Office.

Email: p.kumar17@lse.ac.uk 

Laura Reid

Laura is Co-Chair of LSE Power, organising and chairing the Steering Group meetings, lobbying the School Management Committee for Power priorities, and establishing senior allies.

As Events and Engagement Manager in LSE Careers, Laura leads on the organisation and delivery of flagship events and a number of developmental projects. She also oversees a range of student, graduate and alumni engagement activities.

Email: L.Reid@lse.ac.uk

Meeta Bhatt

Meeta works part-time in the Human Resource Division’s Reward Team, and manages the administration and delivery of the Academic and Research Staff Career Development and Mentoring Schemes. She also supports other teams in HR on web support and digital communications projects. 

Email: m.bhatt@lse.ac.uk 

Dr Gwen Cheve

Gwen works as a Research Development Manager in the Research and Innovation Division. In this role she supports academics with their research strategies so that they can develop their research ideas into distinct and fundable projects.

Email: G.S.Cheve@lse.ac.uk

Lubala Chibwe

Lubala is the Communications and Events Officer in STICERD (a research Centre in the Department of Economics). She organises the seminars and events in STICERD. She coordinates the promotion of STICERD research and events both internally at LSE and externally.

Email: l.chibwe@lse.ac.uk

Maddie Giles

Maddie is the Communications and Events Manager in the Department of Sociology where she organises a wide range of events and manages the department’s communications to internal and external audiences.

Email: M.Giles1@lse.ac.uk

Louise Jones

Louise has been at LSE for over 14 years, and having worked many years in the events team is now Head of Research Communications and Engagement in the Communications Division, supporting research engagement across the School.

Email: L.Jones2@lse.ac.uk

Mercedes Masters

Mercedes is the Co-Communications Manager of LSE Power, responsible for the communications sent to existing Power network members.

Mercedes is the Kuwait Programme Coordinator at the LSE Middle East Centre, where she coordinates the Kuwait Programme's research grant and collaboration projects, as well as overseeing its alumni network and visiting fellowships.

Email: m.c.masters@lse.ac.uk

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mercedesmasters

Dr Souad Mohamed

Dr Souad Mohamed is an External Relations Co-Manager of LSE Power and leads on external relations and partnerships with other leading universities and professional bodies. 

She is a Principal Investigator and Visiting fellow at LSE's Middle East Centre and CEO of IEL International . Her multidisciplinary research and executive education projects includes women leadership development with a focus on top management career trajectories in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region".  

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/souadmohamed/

Email: s.mohamed7@lse.ac.uk

Xiaoran Xu

Xiaoran is a Co-Communications Manager at LSE Power, responsible for communications to existing power network members.

She works as a Communications and Marketing Manager at the Department of Health Policy. She manages communications across channels for the department's research, and leads marketing campaigns for student recruitment.

Email: X.Xu68@lse.ac.uk