Visiting Staff
Visiting appointments are a device to help Departments, Centres and Institutes to invite staff who are either practitioners or academics in other institutions to conduct research, or be involved in other departmental/centre/institute activities. The European Institute welcomes the application of visiting staff, and our current visitors are listed below.
Richard Bronk
Richard Bronk is a writer and part-time academic, with particular expertise in the history of ideas, philosophy of economics, comparative corporate governance and European political economy. Educated at Merton College, Oxford (MA in Literae Humaniores), Richard spent seventeen years in the City of London - with positions including head of European equities at Baring Asset Management, European equity strategist at Merrill Lynch and Adviser on European capital markets and political economy at the Bank of England. From 2000-2007, Richard was a Teaching Fellow at the European Institute, LSE - lecturing on varieties of capitalism, EMU and EU enlargement, as well as on theoretical concepts in political economy. Author of Progress and the Invisible Hand - the Philosophy and Economics of Human Advance (Little Brown, 1998), Richard is currently writing on the role of imagination and metaphor in economics. His new book, The Romantic Economist-Imagination in Economics, is due to be published by Cambridge University Press in January 2009.
More information: Expert Entry
Contact details: r.bronk@lse.ac.uk
Dr Anne Corbett
Anne Corbett is a Visiting Fellow in the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, with research interests in European policy-making, in particular in higher education, and in public management reform. Before that she was a Visiting Fellow is LSE’s Interdisciplinary Institute of Management, following on a period as a doctoral student researching the politics and policy-making of higher education within the European Community.
As a former journalist, she has written widely on education and public policy in Britain and France. Her interest in French politics and society continues as Deputy Chair of the Franco-British Council’s British Section and a member of the Council’s governing board. In 2005 she was made an Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques. She has taught the history of European integration and theory at LSE, and British politics and institutions at the Université de Paris 1 – Sorbonne.
More information: Staff Page Expert Entry
Contact details: 020 7955 7558, a.corbett@lse.ac.uk
Dr Florence Deloche-Gaudez
Dr Effie Fokas
Dr Effie Fokas is director of the LSE Forum on Religion, established in 2008 at the European Institute. Previously she was a Research Fellow in the Hellenic Observatory of the European Institute, and previous to that, she co-taught on the MSc in Theories of Nationalism in the LSE’s Government Department. Her research interests include religion and nationalism; the politics and sociology of immigration in Greece and Europe in general; and the sociology of religion in a European perspective, with a special focus on Islam. She is co-author (with Peter Berger and Grace Davie) of Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations, Ashgate 2008, and co-editor (with Aziz al-Azmeh) of Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence, CUP 2008.
Contact details: 020 7193 2403, e.s.fokas@lse.ac.uk, Religionforum@lse.ac.uk
Professor Klaus H. Goetz
Professor of German and European Politics and Government, Potsdam University, Germany. Klaus is Editor of West European Politics, the premier journal in comparative European politics. He heads the PhD programme in 'Institutions and Policies' at Potsdam University and currently directs a major research project on the EU Timescape, which is funded by the German Research Foundation - DFG. In 2008, he holds a Fernand Braudel Senior Fellowship at the EUI.
More information: http://www.uni-potsdam.de/db/ls_regierungssystem_brd/
Contact details: k.h.goetz@lse.ac.uk or khgoetz@uni-potsdam.de
Philippe Legrain
Philippe Legrain is a critically acclaimed writer and commentator on globalisation, migration and European issues. His latest book, Immigrants: Your Country Needs Them (Little Brown, 2007), has been shortlisted for the Financial Times Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year award. A contributing editor to Prospect magazine and a journalism fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the US, he writes for a variety of publications, including the FT, the Guardian and Foreign Policy, and is a commentator for BBC TV and radio. Previously trade and economics correspondent for The Economist, special adviser to World Trade Organisation director-general Mike Moore, and director of policy for the pro-European campaign group Britain in Europe, he is also the author of Open World: The Truth about Globalisation (Abacus, 2002). He has a first-class degree in economics and a masters in politics of the world economy, both from the LSE.
More information: www.philippelegrain.com
Contact details: mail@philippelegrain.com
Roger Liddle
Roger Liddle is currently Vice-chairman of Policy Network, the international progressive think tank; Chairman of CumbriaVision, a public-private partnership promoting a development strategy for the Cumbria sub-region; and a Visiting Fellow of the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Until October 2007 he was economic policy adviser to the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso; prior to that a Member of the Cabinet of the Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson and for seven years from 1997 European adviser to the then British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. He has written extensively on European and British affairs. He co-authored two papers for the President of the Commission's think tank, the Bureau of European Policy Advisers on "Europe's Social Reality" (February 2007) and the "Single Market: Yesterday and Tomorrow" (July 2006). He has written papers for the Fabian Society "A New Social Europe" (September 2007) and "The New Case for Europe" (February 2005) and co-edited with Tony Giddens and Patrick Diamond "Global Europe, Social Europe" (October 2006). A decade previously in 1996 he had co-authored "The Blair Revolution" with Peter Mandelson. Roger was educated at Carlisle Grammar School and The Queen's College Oxford where he gained an MA in Modern History and an M Phil in Management Studies. He is married to Caroline Thomson, Chief Operating Officer of the BBC and they have one 19 year old son, Andrew.
Contact details: rliddle@policy-network.net
Dr Konstantina Maragkou
Konstantina Maragkou is an historian and holds the A.G Leventis Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship at the Hellenic Observatory. She received a PhD and an MPhil in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Modern History, Economic History and Politics from the University of London. She first joined the LSE as a Visiting Research Fellow at the European Institute and was previously a Visiting Research Fellow at the Remarque Institute of New York University and at the Hellenic Foundation for Foreign and European Policy (ELIAMEP).
Her research interests include Twentieth Century World History and Modern Greek History with special emphasis on Greece’s foreign relations in the post-WWII era. Her current project involves the revision, expansion and publication of her doctoral dissertation on Britain and the Greek Colonels, 1967-1974.
Contact details: k.maragkou@lse.ac.uk
Dr James Mosher
James (Jim) Mosher is Associate Professor of Political Science at Ohio University. His areas of specialisation are European political economy and international political economy. Professor Mosher's research focuses on how labour power has shaped wage equality in advanced industrialised democracies, how globalisation affects domestic politics, international cooperation, and the use of alternative governance mechanisms in the European Union. He is author of the article, "Open Method of Coordination: Functional and Political Origins," which appeared in EUSA Review, co-author (with David Trubek) of the article "Alternative Approaches to Governance in the EU: EU Social Policy and the European Employment Strategy" which appeared in the Journal of Common Market Studies, author of the article "Relative Gains Concerns when the Number of States in the International System Increase," which appeared in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and author of the article "U.S. Wage Inequality, Technological Change, and Decline in Union Power," which appeared in Politics and Society.
Jeanne-Marie Prost
Jeanne-Marie Prost has been working for many years in the French Treasury, mainly on international and European issues, with a focus on economic and monetary negociations and policies. She has been teaching at IEP Paris and ENA.
Contact details: J.Prost@lse.ac.uk
Dr Leila Simona Talani
Dr Leila Simona Talani is a Lecturer in International and European Politics and Political Economy at the University of Bath. She was previously a lecturer at the European Institute of the London School of Economics, and spent a year as Associate Expert on migration issues at the United Nations Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention in Cairo. She gained a PhD with Distinction from the European University Institute in Florence in 1998. Her thesis has been published as Betting For and Against EMU (Ashgate:2000). She is also the author of European Political Economy: Political Science Perspectives (Ashgate:2004), Between Growth and Stability: the Demise and Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (Edward Elgars:2008), Back to Maastricht (CSP:2008), EU and the Balkans: Policy of integration and disintegration (CSP:2008), The future of EMU (Palgrave: 2008), and From Egypt to Europe (I.B.Tauris:2009). Her current research interests focus on the political economy of migration flows from southern Mediterranean countries to the EU and on the credibility of exchange rate commitments and economic agreements. She is a native speaker of Italian but is also fluent in English, Spanish and French, has a working knowledge of German, and is learning Arabic.
More information: http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mlslst and www.leilasimona.blogspot.com
Contact details: L.Talani@lse.ac.uk; L.S.Talani@bath.ac.uk; Leila.Talani@eui.eu
Visiting Fellows are nominated by the Head of the Institute. For further information on application procedures please contact europeaninstitute@lse.ac.uk
Dr Achilleas Mitsos
Dr. Mitsos was Director General for Research of the European Commission from 2000 till 2005, and, before that, Head of Cabinet of Commissioner G.Varfis (1985-1987), Director responsible for the reform and the coordination of the Structural Funds (1987-1994), Director responsible for Vocational Training (1994-1996) and Director responsible for Socio-economic Research and the Human Potential in Research (1996-2000).
Contact details: amitsos@hol.gr
Prof Paul Taylor
More information: Expert Entry
Contact details: p.taylor@lse.ac.uk
Visiting Professors are nominated by the Head of the Institute. For further information on application procedures please contact europeaninstitute@lse.ac.uk
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