LSE staff who advise governments and public bodies

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Dr Babken V Babajanian
Tutorial fellow, Department of Social Policy

• Research and analytical work on poverty, governance and social development in Tajikistan, World Bank
• Research, analytical and operational work on social protection, poverty and community development in Armenia, World Bank
• Research and analytical work on social exclusion in Armenia, UK Department for International Development
• Adviser, Armenia Social Investment Fund, Government of Armenia
• Editorial review and advise on civil society in central Asia, INTRAC, Oxford

Dr James Backhouse
Senior lecturer in information systems; Director, IS Integrity Group, Information Systems Department

• Adviser to the UK Government Foresight Project on Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention  
• Adviser to I-4 (International Information Integrity Institute), the global information risk management industry association, on social science aspects of information security 

Professor Robert Baldwin
Professor of law, Law Department

• Adviser to the National Audit Office on regulation as a member of the National Audit Office's Experts Panel
• Adviser to the Health and Safety Executive, HM Treasury, the OECD, the European  Commission, Postcom and the Cabinet Office
• Advised the Department of Constitutional Affairs 
• Advised, DEFRA

Professor Tony Barnett
ESRC professorial research fellow, LSEAIDS

• Member of the Department of Trade and Industry’s Foresight Project Expert Advisory Group on the Detection and Identification of Infectious Diseases; has also advised this group in relation to social and economic aspects of human and bovinie tuberculosis and TB
• Specialist consultant to the National Audit Office on the Evaluation of the Department for International Development’s HIV/AIDS Policies and Interventions
• Co-author of report, with Professor Gwyn Prins, LSE, for UNAIDS to put before the UN Security Council, HIV/AIDS and Security: fact, fiction and evidence – to be launched 2006
• Invited to submit evidence to Parliamentary Select Committee on Overseas regarding HIV/AIDS issues and strategies. Written evidence submitted. 

Professor Nicholas Barr
Professor of public economics, European Institute

• Member of the Board of Help Age International - an international NGO

Dr Michael Barzelay
Reader in public management and PricewaterhouseCoopers senior research fellow, Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (CARR)

• Adviser, Department of Work and Pensions (UK) 
• Adviser, the National Security Agency (USA) on matters of organisational strategy development

Professor Jo Beall
Professor of development studies, Development Studies Institute (DESTIN)

• Researcher on Crisis States Programme, Development Research Centre of the Department for International Development  
• Consultant to Department for International Development on Social Exclusion and Development  
• External Adviser to the Department for International Development funded Human Rights and Governance Programme / Manusher Jonno, Bangladesh  
• Urban Issues Paper for Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit and World Bank  
• Member of the United Nations Huairou Commission 

Dr Gianluca Benigno
Lecturer in economics, Department of Economics; research associate, Centre for Economic Performance

• Consultant for the Bank of England 

Professor Timothy Besley
Professor of economics and political science; director of STICERD

• Member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (September 2006-)

Professor Gwyn Bevan
Professor of management science, Department of Operational Research and LSE Health and Social Care

• Member of the Technical Advisory Group on Resource Allocation, NHS Executive, Leeds
• Formerly Director of the Office for Information on Healthcare Performance, at the Commission for Health Improvement (CHI), where he had lead responsibility for NHS performance assessment, national clinical audits, national surveys of staff and patients; and all analytic work that underpinned CHI’s reviews of clinical governance, investigations of perceived service failures, and studies of national service frameworks
• Member of the Department of Health's Payment by Results Assurance Steering Group

Professor Sumantra Bose
Professor of international and comparative politics, Department of Government

• Consultant to the United States' Department of State on India-Pakistan relations and the Kashmir conflict
• Consultant to the United Nations on governance frameworks and strategies in deeply divided post-conflict societies
• Consultant to the UK's Department for International Development on institution-building and governance in Bosnia-Hercegovina

Sean Boyle
Visiting research fellow, LSE Health and Social Care

• Adviser to the Health Committee of the House of Commons on public expenditure and related matters since 1993

Professor Willem Buiter, European Institute 

• Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers (REA) of the Netherlands Parliament 
• Previously a member of the Monetary Policy Committee

Professor Richard Burdett
Centennial professor in architecture and urbanism, Cities Programme

• Architectural adviser to the Mayor of London 
• Member of the Greater London Authority's Architecture and Urbanism Unit
• Member of the the City of Barcelona's Quality Committee
• Director of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2006
• Principle design adviser to the London Olympic Delivery Authority, 2006-

Nick Byrne
Director, LSE Language Centre 

• Executive Committee of the Association of University Language Centres in the UK and Ireland
• Member of DfES advisory panel Higher Education and the Languages Ladder, defining criteria for language levels at unversity levels
• Treasurer of CERCLES, European Confederation of University Language Centres

Dr Ernestina Coast
Lecturer in population studies, Department of Social Policy

• Socio-cultural adviser to UNAIDS 'AIDS in Africa: three scenarios to 2025' Project
• Consultant to Danish International Development Agency (DANIDA) on HIV/AIDS

Professor Stan Cohen
Martin White Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology

• On the board of the International Council on Human Rights

Dr Tony Cornford
Senior lecturer in information systems, Department of International Systems

• Consultant to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Dr Peter Davis
Leverhulme lecturer in economics, Department of Economics

• Deputy chair to the Competition Commission (June 2006-)
• Member of the UK Competition Commission's Academic Panel of Expert Economists (2004-)

Professor Patrick Dunleavy
Professor of political science and public policy; Chair, LSE Public Policy Group

• LSE Public Policy Group, led by Professor Dunleavy advises the UK National Audit Office on their published 'value-for-money' reports; PPG also carries out a similar role with the European Court of Auditors in relation to many of their special reports 
• Teams headed by Professor Dunleavy wrote the NAO reports, Difficult Forms: how government agencies interact with citizens (31 October 2003, HC 1145 Session 2002-3), which sets out a new approach to shortening and simplifying government forms; and Government on the Web (December 1999, HC 87 Session 1999-2000) which lead to major changes in the targets for e-government in the UK - see http://www.governmentontheweb.org and Government on the Web II (April 2002) - click here or more details 
• During 2003-4 a PPG team headed by Professor Dunleavy and including Professor Martin Loughlin (Law Department, LSE) worked on a new project for NAO called Citizen Redress which examines the workings of complaints, appeals and tribunals systems across UK and English central government 
• The Government Office for London commissioned Professor Dunleavy and Dr Margetts to devise new electoral systems for electing the London Mayor and the Greater London Assembly. The electoral systems devised were implemented in government legislation approved by a London referendum in 1999, and operated successfully for the first time in May 2000 and for the second time in June 2004
• Professor Dunleavy has recently consulted on the implementation of a new electoral system in a major Middle East country.

Professor George Gaskell 
Director, the Methodology Institute; Institute of Social Psychology, and associate director of BIOS

• Vice-chair of the European Commission’s Science and Society Advisory Committee for the 6th Framework Programme (2003 to date)
• Member of the Science in Society Committee, Royal Society (2004 to date)
• Member of the Expert Group on Risk Communication, European Food Standard Authority (2004 to date)
• Member of the International Advisory Board, Toronto Programme on Applied Ethics and Biotechnology (2003 to date)
• Member of the International Jury, Genome Canada Competition 111. Montreal (2005)

Dr Marlies Glasius
Lecturer and research fellow, Centre for Civil Society and Centre for the Study of Global Governance

• Coordinator of the Study Group on Europe's Security Capabilities. Convened by Professor Mary Kaldor, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, at the request of EU Secretary-General Javier Solana, its purpose was to think about Europe’s security needs from the ‘bottom-up’, in terms of actual experience and likely situations in which security capabilities might be required, rather than from an institutional or geo-political perspective. In particular, it focused on the Petersberg tasks and civil-military co-operation. The Study Group presented its report to Javier Solana in September 2004

Professor Howard Glennerster  
Professor emeritus of social administration; co-director, Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion (CASE)

• Member of the Secretary of State for Health’s Advisory Committee on Resource Allocation
• Previous appointments have included being a member of the Higher Education Funding Council Research Assessment Exercise, Social Policy Panel; a member of the Higher Education Funding Council Social Policy Benchmarking Group; and adviser to Her Majesty’s Treasury on the economics of public services 

Professor John Hills
Professor of social policy; Director, CASE

• Commissioner of the Pensions Commission
• Leader, independent assessment of social housing for the UK Department for Communities and Local Government, June 2006-.

Professor Jude Howell
Director, Centre for Civil Society 

• Adviser to Central Asia Group of INTRAC, a UK international NGO
• Consultant and advisor to DFID, British Council, Ford Foundation, EU, UNDP on international development issues, particularly relating to governance, civil society, China
• Steering committee member of CIVICUS
• Director of ESRC Non-governmental Public Action Programme

Professor George Jones
Emeritus professor of government, Government Department

• Chair and adviser on Ward Working, London Borough of Brent, 2005
• Chairman, Constitutional Committees of the London Boroughs of Hackney and Brent Borough Councils, 1998-2002
• Member, Beacon Councils Advisory Panel, 1999-2002
• Member, National Consumer Council, 1991-99 and chair of its Public Service Committee, 1992-98
• Member, Joint Working Party on Internal Management of Local Authorities, 1992-93
• Member, Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance, 1974-76 

Professor Mary Kaldor
Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance

• Governor and advisor to the Westminster Foundation for Democracy
• Founder member of European Nuclear Disarmament (END)
• Founder and co-chair of the Helsinki Citizen’s Assembly
• Member of the International Independent Commission to investigate the Kosovo Crisis, established by the Swedish Prime Minister and chaired by Richard Goldstone, which published the Kosovo Report (Oxford: OUP) in autumn 2000

Dr Panagiotis Kanavos 
Lecturer in international health policy and research fellow in pharmaceutical economics, Department of Social Policy and LSE Health and Social Care

• Adviser to a number of international governmental and non-governmental organisations, including the World Bank, the World Health Organisation and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the American Association for Retired Persons and Ministries of Health in over 14 transition and developing countries

Francesca Klug OBE
Professorial research fellow, Centre for the Study of Human Rights 

• Member of the Steering Group, appointed by the government to oversee the establishment of the Commission for Equality and Human Rights
• Appointed to sit on the Reference Group to the Discrimination Law and Equality Reviews whose remit includes advising on a Single Equality Act to harmonise and consolidate existing anti-discrimination legislation
• Commissioner, UK Commission for Equality and Human Rights 2007-

Professor Martin Knapp
Professor of social policy, Department of Social Policy, and director of the Personal Social Services Research Unit

• Member of the Secretary of State's Welfare Reform Advisers' Forum, Department of Work and Pensions
• Research adviser to the National Institute for Mental Health in England
• Member of the National Forensic Mental Health R&D Programme Committee
• Adviser to the World Health Organisation

Dr Sarabajaya Kumar
Lecturer in social policy (Voluntary Organisation and Civil Society), Department of Social Policy

• Member of the Governance Strategy Group, chaired by Tina Jenkins of the ACU, set up to advise and oversee the development of an integrated Governance Strategy for the voluntary and community sector.

Professor Lord Richard Layard
Emeritus professor of economics  

• Consultant to the Department for Education and Skills (DfES)
• Labour peer
• Economic consultant to the Russian Government, 1991-97
• Consultant to the UK government's Forward Strategy Unit

Dr Jonathan Leape
Director, the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa 

• Adviser to Treasury in South Africa

Professor Julian Le Grand
Richard Titmuss Professor of Social Policy 

• Secondment 2003-05 as senior policy adviser to the UK Prime Minister 
• Adviser on Social Policy to President Barroso of the European Commission
• Chair of one of four new working groups set up to examine the government’s Green Paper, Care Matters.

Dr Jonathan Liebenau
Senior lecturer in information systems, Department of Information Systems

• Adviser to the Office of Science and Technology (of the DTI) 
• Adviser to the National Offenders Management Service (of the Home Office)
• Invited by HM Treasury to present an analysis as part of their Comprehensive Spending Review.

Professor Sonia Livingstone
Professor of social psychology, Department of Media and Communications

• Member of the Home Office Internet Task Force Sub Group on Research Issues
• Vice-chair, Internet Watch Foundation
• Steering Committee, Department for Education and Skills - advising on developing a website, DirectGov for Kids
• Consultant, Ofcom (various projects on media literacy and advertising to children)
• President-elect of the International Communication Association

Professor Robin Mansell
Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, Department of Media and Communications

• President of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)

Dr Beacon Mbiba
Lecturer in urban planning and development policy

• Board member of Hyde Housing Association, London Regional Committee

Professor David Metcalf
Professor of industrial relations; deputy director, Centre for Economic Performance  

• Chair of the independent UK Migration Advisory Committee, which will advise ministers on which occupations should qualify as being short of necessary skills (2007-)
• On the Low Pay Commission (since 1977), which sets the minimum wage
• On the Starting Price Review Commission (since 2004). This monitors the integrity of starting prices on FAC horseracing - some £7 billion is invested every year
• On the Union Modernisation Fund Supervisory Board (since 2005). This allocates £12 million of public money to modernising trade unions

Professor Elias Mossialos
Professor of health policy, Department of Social Policy; director, LSE Health

• Research director of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies
• Adviser to the Office of Fair Trading: market study into the Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme (PPRS), 2005-
• Honorary consultant in public health, South East London NHS Strategic Health Authority, 2005-
• Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, National Public Health Research Institute, Luxembourg (Centre de Recherche Public - Santé). 2005-
• Adviser to the director of pharmaceutical economic evaluations, National Department of Health, Republic of South Africa, on pharmaceutical pricing and regulation of pharmacies, 2004
• Member of the World Bank's External Advisory Committee for the Health Nutrition and Population Publication Series, 2004-
• Adviser to the World Health Organization's Essential Drugs and Vaccines Programme, 2004
• Member of the Management Board of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA), 2000-03
• Adviser to HM Treasury Health Review Team in 2002 and 2003
• Adviser to the European Commission (Directorate General for Employment and Social Affairs) and contributor to the 2003 EC Social Situation Report
• Chair to an International Committee of Experts invited by the Association of Health Insurance Funds in Austria to review the Austrian system of pricing and reimbursement of pharmaceuticals, 2003
• Adviser to the Swedish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Contributor to the international forum on 'Common access to health care services' coordinated by the health ministries of Sweden, New Zealand and the UK Department of Health, 2002
• Adviser to the Minister of Health in Slovenia on health care financing, 2002-03
• Adviser to the World Bank on supplementary health insurance policies in Croatia, 2002
• Coordinator of the Belgian EU Presidency Conference on 'European Integration and Health Care Systems: a challenge for social policy', organised by the Belgian Minister of Social Affairs and Pensions, Ghent, December 2001

Professor Tim Newburn
Professor of Criminology and Social Justice, Social Policy Department; director, Mannheim Centre for the Study of Criminology and Criminal Justice

• Member of the Home Secretary's special review of crime statistics

Professor Stephen Nickell
Centre for Economic Performance; Department of Economics

• Monetary Policy Committee Member, Bank of England

Professor Christopher Pissarides
Professor of economics, Department of Economics

• Specialist adviser to House of Commons Treasury Committee (on monetary policy)
• Member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Cyprus
• Previously, member of Employment Taskforce (chaired by Wim Kok), European Commission (2003-04, reported in November 2004)

Professor Anne Power
Professor of social policy; Co-ordinator, LSE Housing

• Voluntary director, National Tenants Resource Centre, Trafford Hall, Chester
• Member, Sustainable Development Commission
• Member, Advisory Group for JRF project Understanding Transformation of the Prospects of Place
• Chair, Independent Commission of Inquiry into the Future of Council Housing in Birmingham
• Member, Policy Network Community and Inequality Working Group
• International collaborative research project with Brookings Institution, Washington DC, on trends in low income neighbourhoods in the US and UK

Professor Andrea Prat
Reader in economics, Department of Economics and STICERD

• Member, Scientific Committee, CONSIP (Italy's Public Procurement Agency)

Dr James Putzel
Reader in Development Studies; Director, Crisis States Research Centre

• Director of Crisis States Research Centre at LSE which advises Department for International Development (DFID) and FCO on issues related to fragile states
• Consultant to DFID on governance issues
• Consultant to the DFID and UNAIDS on governance and HIV/AIDS issues
• Consultant to DFID and World Bank on politics and poverty reduction in preparation for World Development Report 2000

Professor Judith Rees
Professor of environmental and resources management, Department of Geography and Environment

• UN secretary general's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation.
• Appointed to the Economic and Social Research Council 2004-07
• Member of the Competition Commission until October 2002
• Advisor to the World Bank on water privatisation, regulation and pricing, and governments on institutional design and regulatory regimes.

Dr Lawrence Sáez
Visiting fellow, Asia Research Centre

• Executive committee member, Political Studies Association, July 06-
• Chair, Standing Group on Third World Politics, European Consortium for Political Research, April 06-
• Consultant, European Commission, January 2006-present

Dr Mariano Selvaggi
Lecturer in management and economics,  Interdisciplinary Institute of Management

• Consultant for GLA Economics, Greater London Authority

Dr Gerry Simpson
Reader in law, Law Department

• Legal adviser to InterAction Council (former heads of states)
• Appointed as 'expert assessor of international standing' to Australian Research Council 

Professor Leonard Smith
Research professor of statistics; Director, Centre for the Analysis of Time Series

• Adviser for the Treasury's Stern Review on the economics of climate change
• Expert reviewer, IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Working Group I Fourth Assessment Report 
• Member, World Meteorological Organisation's expert team on verification
• Member, Scientific Steering Committee of climateprediction.net
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Peter Sommer
Visiting fellow, IS Integrity Group, 

• Observer member of EURIM
• Member of SAPER
• Advisory council member of the Foundation for Information Policy Research
• Adviser to the National Specialist Law Enforcement Training Centre
• External examiner, Centre for Forensic Computing, Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham
• Editorial board, Digital Investigation
• Member, Information Assurance Advisory Council
• Reference group, PRIME
• Joint lead assessor, Digital Evidence, Council for the Registration of Forensic Practitioners

Professor Francis Terry
Visiting fellow, Interdisciplinary Institute of Management

• On Commission for Integrated Transport's Expert Office's expert panel for advisory and consultancy services
• Chairman of the Regulated Industries Network  

Professor Peter Townsend
Professor of international social policy, Social Policy Department

• Chair of the Standing Committee of the Welsh Assembly Government on Allocation of NHS Resources
• Member of the Advisory Board of the United Nations Development Programme's International Poverty Centre (in Brasilia)

Tony Travers
Director, Greater London Group

• Expenditure Adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Employment
• Member of the Arts Council of England's Touring Panel
• Member of the Arts and Business London Advisory Committee
• Adviser to the Greater London Authority Transport Performance Panel

Professor John Van Reenen
Director, Centre for Economic Performance

• Academic associate to HM Treasury advising on issues of productivity and employment
• Member of the Productivity Strategy Board, Office of National Statistics; determining ONS work on productivity statistics
• Economic Advisory Group to Chief Economist, European Commission DG Competition
• Previously, senior policy analyst in the Strategic Unit at the Department of Health (2000-01). Reporting directly to Alan Milburn, secretary of state and involved with the writing and analysis underlying the NHS Plan (26 July 2000)

Professor William Wallace
Professor of international studies, International Relations Department

• Liberal Democrat Peer (Lib Dem spokesman on foreign affairs. 
•  member, Lords European Union Committee 1997-2001 

Joachim Wehner
Lecturer in public choice and public policy, Government Department

• Consultant to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for reviews of the budget systems of Romania, Slovenia and Croatia, financed by German Technical Co-operation (GTZ)
• Consultant to the World Bank on various legislative and governance issues, including advising on fiscal aspects of Afghanistan's new constitution, and budget training for parliamentarians from the Asia region
• Public finance training with parliamentarians for the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA)

Professor Bill Wedderburn
Emeritus professor of commercial law

• Labour Peer

Professor Sarah Worthington
Professor of law, Law Department

• Bank of England, Financial Markets Law Committee, Member of the Working Group on Registration
  of Security Interests (Feb 2004- )
• Member of the Advisory Council for the Working Team on Leases of Moveables under the Von Bar
  Study Group of a European Civil Code (2003- )
• Consultant to the Law Commission (2002- )
• Member of the Insolvency Lawyers' Academic Advisory Group - (1999- )
• Fellow of the International Institute for Corporate Governance and Accountability (2000- )
• Australian Research Council--appointed as 'Expert Assessor of International Standing' (2004-)

Please note that, while we do try to keep this page as up to date as possible, this page may list appointments that have ended. LSE staff who want to appear on this page should email details to j.winterstein@lse.ac.uk  

Updated 5 December 2006

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