James Gardner March was an American sociologist who was professor at Stanford University and the Stanford Graduate School of Education, best known for his research on organizations, his A behavioral theory of the firm and organizational decision making known as Garbage Can Model.
Sir Partha Sarathi Dasgupta, FRS, FBA, is the Frank Ramsey Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom; Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Visiting Professor at the New College of the Humanities, London. He was born in Dhaka, present-day Bangladesh, then moved to present-day India, and is the son of the noted economist Amiya Kumar Dasgupta. He is married to Carol Dasgupta, who is a psychotherapist. His father-in-law was the Nobel Laureate James Meade.
Simon Frederick Peter Halliday was an Irish writer and academic specialising in International Relations and the Middle East, with particular reference to the Cold War, Iran, and the Arabian peninsula.
The golden triangle is an unofficial grouping of research universities located in the cities of Cambridge, London and Oxford in the southeast of England. The triangle is sometimes referred to as the Loxbridge triangle, a portmanteau of London and Oxbridge.
Craig Jackson Calhoun is an American sociologist, currently University Professor of Social Sciences at Arizona State University. An advocate of using social science to address issues of public concern, he was the Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from September 2012 until September 2016, after which he became the first president of the Berggruen Institute. Prior to leading LSE, Calhoun led the Social Science Research Council, and was University Professor of the Social Sciences at New York University and Director of NYU's Institute for Public Knowledge. With Richard Sennett he co-founded NYLON, an interdisciplinary working seminar for graduate students in New York and London who bring ethnographic and historical research to bear on politics, culture, and society.
Odd Arne Westad FBA is a Norwegian historian specializing in the Cold War and contemporary East Asian history. He is the ST Lee Professor of US-Asia Relations at Harvard University, teaching in the John F. Kennedy School of Government. Westad is also a Senior Scholar at the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies. Previously he was School Professor of International History at LSE, where he also served as director of LSE IDEAS. In the spring semester 2019 Westad was Boeing Company Chair in international relations at Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University.
Bent Flyvbjerg is a Danish economic geographer. He is Professor of Major Programme Management at Oxford University's Saïd Business School and the first Director of the University's BT Centre for Major Programme Management. He was previously Professor of Planning at Aalborg University, Denmark and Chair of Infrastructure Policy and Planning at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is a fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.
Dame Frances Clare Kirwan, is a British mathematician, currently Savilian Professor of Geometry at the University of Oxford. Her fields of specialisation are algebraic and symplectic geometry.
Nikolas Rose is a prominent British sociologist and social theorist. He is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at King's College London, having joined King's in January 2012 to found this new Department. Previously he was the James Martin White Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, director and founder of LSE's BIOS Centre for the Study of Bioscience, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Society from 2002 to 2011, and Head of the LSE Department of Sociology (2002–2006). He was previously Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he had been Head of the Department of Sociology, Pro-Warden for Research and Head of the Goldsmiths Centre for Urban and Community Research and Director of a major evaluation of urban regeneration in South East London.
Conor A. Gearty is the Professor of Human Rights Law at LSE Department of Law. From 2002-09, he was Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics. His academic research focuses primarily on civil liberties, terrorism and human rights.
Alexander Ljungqvist is a Swedish economist, educator, scholar, writer, and speaker. He is a professor of finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, where he holds the Stefan Persson Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Finance. His areas of expertise include corporate finance, investment banking, initial public offerings, entrepreneurial finance, private equity, venture capital, corporate governance, and asset pricing. Professor Ljungqvist teaches MBA and executive courses in private equity and venture capital and a PhD course in corporate finance.
Maurice Bloch is a British anthropologist. His widowed mother remarried an Englishman, and moved with her son to England when he was eleven. He did all of his college and graduate work there, and has had most of his academic career at the London School of Economics, where he was made full professor in 1983.
John Peter Scott CBE FBA, FAcSS DU Essex (Hon) is a British sociologist working on issues of economic and political sociology, social stratification, the history of sociology, and social network analysis. He is currently working independently, and has previously worked at the Universities of Strathclyde, Leicester, Essex, and Plymouth. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a member of the British Sociological Association since 1970. In 2015 he became Chair of Section S4 of the British Academy. In 2016 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Essex University.
Robin Burgess, is a Professor of Economics, the Director of the Economic Organisation and Public Policy Programme, Co-founder and Director of the International Growth Centre, and Co-Director of the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Alnoor Bhimani is Professor of Management Accounting, Founding Director of LSE Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is former Head of the Department of Accounting. Bhimani's academic work covers financial controls in the digital economy; management accounting and strategic finance; entrepreneurship and economic growth; and global development and governance issues.
Katrin A. Flikschuh FBA is professor of political theory at the London School of Economics (LSE). Flikschuh's research interests relate to the political philosophy of Immanuel Kant, metaphysics and meta-level justification in contemporary political philosophy, global justice and cosmopolitanism, and the history of modern political thought.
Professor Xiaolan Fu (傅晓岚), is a British-based Chinese economist. She is the Founding Director of the Technology and Management Centre for Development (TMCD), She is a Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College.
Dame Theresa Mary Marteau, is a British health psychologist, professor, and director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, Fellow and director of studies for Psychological and Behavioural Sciences at Christ's College, Cambridge.
Tobias Scheytt is a German Professor of Management Accounting and Control, and Head of the Department of Management Accounting and Control (ICU) at the Helmut Schmidt University in Hamburg. Scheytt's academic work covers control systems; risk and risk management; quality management; business development; and public and expert organizations.
