The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London,England,and a member institution of the University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidney Webb,Beatrice Webb,Graham Wallas,and George Bernard Shaw,LSE joined the University of London in 1900 and established its first degree courses under the auspices of the university in 1901. LSE began awarding its degrees in its own name in 2008,prior to which it awarded degrees of the University of London. It became a university in its own right within the University of London in 2022.
Governance is the process of making and enforcing decisions within an organization or society. It is the process of interactions through the laws,social norms,power or language as structured in communication of an organized society over a social system. It is done by the government of a state,by a market,or by a network. It is the process of choosing the right course among the actors involved in a collective problem that leads to the creation,reinforcement,or reproduction of acceptable conduct and social order". In lay terms,it could be described as the political processes that exist in and between formal institutions.
David Jonathan Andrew Held was a British political scientist who specialised in political theory and international relations. He held a joint appointment as Professor of Politics and International Relations,and was Master of University College,at Durham University until his death. He was also a visiting Professor of Political Science at Libera UniversitàInternazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli. Previously he was the Graham Wallas chair of Political Science and the co-director of the Centre for the Study of Global Governance at the London School of Economics.
The Earth Institute is a research institute at Columbia University that was established in 1995. Its stated mission is to address complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants,with a focus on sustainable development. With an interdisciplinary approach,this includes research in climate change,geology,global health,economics,management,agriculture,ecosystems,urbanization,energy,hazards,and water. The Earth Institute's activities are guided by the idea that science and technological tools that already exist could be applied to greatly improve conditions for the world's poor,while preserving the natural systems that support life on Earth.
Sir Timothy John Besley,is a British academic economist who is the School Professor of Economics and Political Science and Sir W. Arthur Lewis Professor of Development Economics at the London School of Economics (LSE).
The Maryland School of Public Policy is one of 14 schools at the University of Maryland,College Park. The school is located inside the Capital Beltway and ranks 16th nationally for schools of public policy according to U.S. News &World Report (2012).
Ian Andrew Goldin is a South African-born British professor at the University of Oxford in England,and was the founding director of the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford.
Nitin Desai is an Indian economist and international civil servant. He was Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations from 1992 to 2003.
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) is a research and learning organisation affiliated with the University of Sussex in Brighton,England,and based on its campus in Falmer,East Sussex. It delivers research and teaching in the area of development studies.
Nemat Talaat Shafik,Baroness Shafik,,also known as Minouche Shafik,is an Egyptian-born British-American economist. She served as the President and Vice Chancellor of the London School of Economics from September 2017 to June 2023. On 1 July 2023,she became the 20th president of Columbia University,the first woman since its founding in the year 1754. She also currently serves as Board Member of Bill &Melinda Gates Foundation.
The International Growth Centre (IGC) is an economic research centre based at the London School of Economics,operated in partnership with University of Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government.
Eric Neumayer is a professor of Environment and Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is Pro-Director of Faculty Development. He holds a Diplom in Economics from Saarland University,a Master of Science and PhD in Development Studies from LSE,awarded by the University of London. In 2003,he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in Geography. He is an Associate of the Center for the Study of Civil War at the Peace Research Institute Oslo.
The contributions of women in climate change have received increasing attention in the early 21st century. Feedback from women and the issues faced by women have been described as "imperative" by the United Nations and "critical" by the Population Reference Bureau. A report by the World Health Organization concluded that incorporating gender-based analysis would "provide more effective climate change mitigation and adaptation."
LSE Cities is a research centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Julia Mary Black is the strategic director of innovation and a professor of law at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She was the interim director of the LSE,a post she held from September 2016 until September 2017,at which time Minouche Shafik took over the directorship. She is the president of the British Academy,the UK's national academy for the humanities and social sciences,and became the academy's second female president in July 2021 for a four-year term.
Barbara Harriss-White is an English economist and emeritus professor of development studies. She was trained in geography,agricultural science,agricultural economics and self-taught in development economics. In the 1990s,she helped to create the multi- and inter- disciplinary thematic discipline of development studies in Oxford Department of International Development;and in 2005-7 founded Oxford's Contemporary South Asia Programme. She has developed an approach to the understanding of Indian rural development and its informal economy,grounded in political economy and decades of what the economic anthropologist Polly Hill called ‘field economics’.
Jane Cecelia Falkingham is a Professor of Demography and International Social Policy at the University of Southampton. She is also Vice-President at the University of Southampton,and Director of the ESRC Centre for Population Change and Principal Investigator of ESRC Connecting Generations. She is Chair of Population Europe. She was President of the European Association of Population Studies (EAPS) between 2018 and 2020,and was President of the British Society for Population Studies between 2015 and 2017.
The India Observatory (IO) is a research unit at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
The Greater London Group was a research centre at the London School of Economics that was created in 1958 and focused on issues of London government. It has been recognised as having had a significant impact during the 1960s and upon the creation of the Greater London Council in 1965.
Kathleen "Kath" Juanita Scanlon is a Distinguished Policy Fellow and Deputy Director of LSE London,a research urban group based at London School of Economics and Political Science.
