Strategic Leads
Nava Ashraf
Founder and Director
Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Oriana Bandiera
Co-Founder
Sir Anthony Atkinson chair in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Zijun (Jerry) Lin
Lab Manager
MRes/PhD student at LSE, economist and computer scientist.
Research Affiliates
Alexia Delfino
Assistant Professor of Economics at Bocconi University
Luigi Zingales
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Virginia Minni
Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Christiane Szerman
Assistant Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Martina Zanella
Assistant Professor of Economics at Trinity College Dublin
Bennet Feld
PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Akash Uppal
MRes/PhD student at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Matthew O’Brien
PhD candidate at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Cármen Pegas
PhD candidate at Stanford
Practitioners in Residence
Barbara Bennett
Chief Executive and Director General, Jobs and Careers Service Operations, UK Government
Nick Dalton
Executive Director at Herrliberg Consulting (previously EVP HR, Unilever)
Pre-doctoral Fellows
Aris Chrysafis
Senior Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Work areas: Future of Work(ers), communities of learning and big companies
Hisham Abdullah
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Work areas: Communities of contribution, youth unemployment
Matteo Fossi
PhD student at the University of Southern California
Neha Verma
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Work areas: Community Empowerment and Resilience, bringing insights from the Global South.
Vidhi Vivek
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Work areas: Communities of contribution and Capabilities Development, Applied Econometrics
Stefan Milicescu
Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science
Work areas: Future of Work(ers), Labor Markets and Unemployment