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Back in the days of Sir William Beveridge’s directorship 6 From LSE to Liberty (1919-37), LSE was famously described as the place Alumna Shami Chakrabarti, on which ‘the concrete never sets’. It was also famous director of human rights for contributing, indeed steering, some of the greatest organisation Liberty, talks to social changes of the time. Conor Gearty about LSE, justice and challenging the Little has changed. Beveridge would instantly recognise status quo. the LSE of . 8 Aiding the War on Terror The concrete mixers have churned busily for two years 10 Is international aid being as the New Academic Building has been delivered on time and to budget. It used to foster allies rather was formally opened on 5 November by HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of than development in the Edinburgh in another event Beveridge would recognise. The last time the School ‘War on Terror’? Jude welcomed a reigning British monarch was on a spring day under his directorship Howell and Jeremy Lind in May 1920 when King George V laid the foundation stone for the Old Building. discuss their research. The weather may have been chillier this time round but spirits were high and over 400 students and staff lined the balconies of the newly created three-tier 10 The endless city atrium to watch the unveiling of the commemorative plaque. The shape of cities defines the environmental, economic This edition of LSE Magazine celebrates that opening with a double page and social sustainability of spread on the new artwork commissioned for the atrium and a special thank global society, argues Ricky you to all our donors. Burdett as he reveals the 24 The magazine also celebrates the ongoing contribution of LSE to major latest findings of the Urban policy debates. This is as evident today as it was in Beveridge’s time, with Age project. LSE academics dominating the debate on the credit crunch. 24 Sculpting space 13 Keeping the Joy Gerrard’s Elenchus- The New Academic Building houses the Department of Management and the nation healthy Aporia is one of two Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. Both Howard Glennerster reflects spectacular new sculptures adopt a multidisciplinary approach to research, feeding ideas and analysis on the role of LSE academics to commemorate the into some of the most vexing issues of our time. in the creation and shaping opening of the School’s Howard Glennerster, in a piece commemorating 60 years of the National Health of the National Health Service, New Academic Building. Service, looks at the impact of LSE academics on this national institution – throughout its 60 years. from Beveridge’s visionary 1942 report on social insurance onwards. 15 Testing times The magazine also celebrates Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, who Waiting for your results can Regulars talks to Professor Conor Gearty about how LSE shaped her – and set her be an anxious time – and this 4 Headline news on the road to become one of the most renowned human rights activists time it’s the academics who are feeling the strain, writes in the UK today. 21 Rodent’s Rambles Howard Davies. I hope you enjoy this issue. LSE continues to be as important in the shaping 26 Supporting LSE of the world today as it was when it was founded. Beveridge would be proud. 16 A Nobel story Peter Miller describes 29 Letters Claire Sanders heated debate at the Nobel symposium where he was 30 LSE news asked to present his latest 33 Research update research; and we look back COVER PICTURE COURTESY OF LIBERTY on the Nobel laureates with 35 Alumni news, reunions LSE connections. LSE Magazine is published twice a year by the Press and Information Office at the London School of Economics and 37 Alumni groups Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7060. Fax: +44 (0)20 7852 3658. Email: [email protected] 18 Mediating the media 41 Where are they now? 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First LSE Africa Forum – Rwanda 2008

business. No individual, nation or region can afford to stand on the sidelines – we all must commit to a single purpose of mitigating environmental degradation within our means and capabilities,’ he said. In a video address, Professor Lord Stern of Brentford, IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at LSE, said that Africa is being hit earliest and hardest by climate change despite the fact that it produces a small fraction of the world’s emissions. Other speakers included the Rwandan prime minister Bernard Makuza; Margaret Sekaggya, Paul Kagame (left) and Howard Davies chair of the Uganda Human Rights Commission; Graham Stegmann Experts in development, climate of LSE and His Excellency Paul of the African Development Bank; change and human rights came Kagame, president of the Republic Grace Akumu, the outspoken 1 together for the first Africa Climate of Rwanda, who spoke of the Kenyan environmental leader Change Forum, hosted by the need for collaboration to address of Climate Network Africa; and Government of Rwanda and LSE climate change globally: Mary Robinson, former UN high in Kigali, Rwanda in September. ‘Climate change can no longer be commissioner for human rights Opening speakers at the forum considered a field for scientists, and former president of Ireland. included Howard Davies, director experts and environmental activists alone – it is everybody’s Commenting on the credit crunch

LSE academics have featured and Dr Jon Danielsson, reader project’s results is available from heavily in the news in recent in finance, FMG. Professor Luis http://fmg.lse.ac.uk/research months as the credit crunch Garicano also hit the headlines under Regulation and Financial has dominated headlines. in November when he explained Stability Research Programme, Monitoring from the External the origins of the credit crunch research and projects. Relations Division shows that to HM The Queen at the opening In response to current Willem Buiter of the Financial of the New Academic Building. Markets Group (FMG), chair of developments in the financial European political economy, The study of financial crises, the crisis the School has held a has become LSE’s main media regulation of financial institutions number of public lectures and commentator on the crunch, with and financial stability have also events to discuss the situation nearly 100 media mentions in been at the heart of the research as it unfolds. Highlights include: the third quarter of 2008 alone. agenda of the Regulation and an FMG research debate on ‘The Other key contributors include Financial Stability Research Financial Crisis: an LSE viewpoint Professor Charles Goodhart, Programme, one of six FMG in November’ with Howard Davies, programme director for regulation research programmes. Directed Willem Buiter, Jon Danielsson and and financial stability, FMG, by Professors Charles Goodhart Charles Goodhart of LSE, Matt School director Howard Davies, and Hyun Shin, the programme King, credit products strategist, Citigroup and Sushil Wadhwani Willem Buiter (left) and Jon Danielsson researches the impact of financial regulation on the workings of CEO of Wadhwani Asset the banking system and on the Management; a public lecture functioning of financial markets. by Alessandro Profumo, CEO of UniCredit Group, discussing ‘The Some of the main questions that Role of Banks in a Globalised came to light during the recent Economy: balancing innovation financial crisis were also the focus and stability’; and Will Hutton, of research for an ESRC funded chief executive, Work Foundation project, The Stability of the Global and Martin Wolf, associate editor, Financial System: Regulation and Financial Times in conversation Policy Response, completed at the with LSE Professor David Held FMG last May. A summary of the on ‘The Global Financial Crisis’.

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1. Toomas Hendrik Ilves, president of Estonia, 4. Penny Wong, Australia’s minister for 6. Rajat Nag, managing director general looked at European security architecture. climate change and water, gave a lecture of the Asian Development Bank, looked at 2. Will Hutton, chief executive entitled ‘Towards a New Response to Climate Asia’s challenges in bridging the gap between of the Work Foundation Change – Perspectives from Australia’. high growth economies and the poor. and 5. Professor Catharine MacKinnon, Elizabeth 7. George Osborne, shadow chancellor 3. Martin Wolf, associate editor and chief A Long Professor of Law at the University and MP for Tatton, Cheshire, gave the economics commentator at the Financial of Michigan, spoke about developments Conservatives’ response to the credit crunch. Times, discussed the global financial crisis. in women’s human rights globally.

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Shami Chakrabarti Born to Indian immigrant parents in west London, Shami Chakrabarti attended state schools before gaining a place at LSE to study for an LLB. She graduated with a 2:1 in 1994, was called to the Bar in 1994 and subsequently worked as a lawyer in the until joining Liberty – the National Council for Civil Liberties – in 2001 as in-house counsel. Two years ago she was included in the top ten of Radio 4’s ‘People Shami Chakrabarti, director of the human rights who run Britain’ poll, alongside and Rupert Murdoch. She has even inspired a pop organisation Liberty, talks to Conor Gearty about the lasting song by the band The Dastards: impact of an LSE law degree. ‘I turn on my TV:/The only one I want to see/ Is Shami Chakrabarti… She should be running the country/At the head of her party’. Shami Chakrabarti is fast becoming one of LSE’s SC: I was political with a small ‘p’. I certainly devel- © Dastards 2005 most famous alumni. Director of Liberty since oped a strong interest in justice early on. To begin 2003, she is widely acknowledged as a powerful with, that was emotional rather than intellectual. I For more information on Liberty’s work, see and effective lobbyist for civil liberties – prompting have told the story before about a conversation on www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk newspaper to describe her as ‘one of the the death penalty with my father. Essentially, as a 12 most dangerous women in Britain’. year old girl, I thought that the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Professor Conor Gearty Earlier this year, as the new term loomed, she found Sutcliffe should be killed for his crimes. But my father Conor Gearty was born in time to talk to Professor Conor Gearty, director of dissuaded me, pointing to the imperfections of the Ireland and graduated in LSE’s Centre for the Study of Human Rights, about criminal justice system, and asking me to imagine how law from University College, why she chose to study at LSE – and what she learnt. it would feel to be wrongly accused. That conversation Dublin before moving to Conor Gearty: It is well known that you studied for had a profound effect on me then and still does today. Wolfson College, Cambridge an LLB at LSE, but not so much is known about CG: And how did LSE sustain that interest? in 1980 to study for a master’s your time here – or why you chose to study at LSE. degree and then for a PhD. He SC: What was extraordinary about studying an became a fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Shami Chakrabarti: Like many students who come LLB at LSE was the context it gave me. When I in 1983 and in 1990 he moved to the School here, I had a strong sense of LSE as a place where studied family law, for example, I was encouraged to of Law at King’s College, London. On 1 October history is made, where academics scrutinise issues discuss domestic relations, to evaluate the constructs 2002, he took up a new appointment as director of that matter. And as a teenager, I was deeply attracted commonly used – everything was up for grabs. I the Centre for the Study of Human Rights and to its rebellious image – the legacy of all that 60s’ viewed this as a course in law as a social science professor of human rights law at LSE. He has radicalism. Finally, my parents – both graduates – and loved it. published widely on terrorism, civil liberties and from Indian universities – had a strong sense of CG: And who were the academics who taught human rights. Professor Gearty is also a what LSE is. and influenced you? and was founder member of Matrix Chambers, CG: Does that mean you were political from a SC: My tutor was Professor Rick Rawlings, who has from where he continues to practise. young age? now left LSE. He encouraged me to see law as a social 6 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I phenomenon, a set of rules that could be reformed (see CG: But are you winning? Some people are very box below). The other great influences were Professor pessimistic about the state of civil liberties in this Combating intolerance: Carol Harlow, now an emeritus professor at LSE, and country, and the direction of travel post 9/11. Frederick Bonnart David Schiff, who taught me jurisprudence. SC: I am not at all pessimistic. I cannot afford to be. CG: What sort of lawyer did all these influences The government’s proposal to extend pre-charge de- 1922-2008 make you? tention from 28 days to 42 days was overwhelmingly Since 2006, the Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal SC: Well, not a regular lawyer! I learnt to see the law defeated in the Lords. And take another example, the Human Rights Act… Trust has provided talented students as a means of delivering change for people. I think with the Bonnart-Braunthal Scholarship. the fact that LSE is such an international place also CG: …but the Conservatives are talking of abolishing Established by Frederick Bonnart, who died encouraged that perspective. My friends at LSE came that in favour of a British Bill of Rights. earlier this year, the scholarship programme from across the world, from very different backgrounds SC: Bear with me. The Conservatives may want is for current and prospective MPhil/ and legal traditions. This outward looking place rein- reform but no-one is talking of a return to reliance on PhD students working in areas relevant to forced my belief that the status quo can be challenged. the common law to protect our civil liberties. Those religious, racial and cultural intolerance. days are gone and that is a huge advance. And CG: But you did not want to become a lawyer Victoria Redclift was awarded the first LSE we must ensure that any future legislation respects initially? scholarship for her work on the nature and everyone’s rights – those of the freeborn Englishman SC: That is true. I had dreams of working in the City meaning of statelessness, focusing on as well as those of the asylum seeker. to earn enough money to become a script writer in the Urdu-speaking ‘stateless’ minority in the United States. But that plan fell at the first hurdle, CG: You have quoted Martin Luther King before, Bangladesh. Now in her second year and due when I failed the maths tests. So I became a barrister and spoken of the arc of history bending towards to conduct field work in Bangladesh, Victoria instead and worked in the Home Office for a number justice, arguing that our instincts lean towards describes Frederick Bonnart’s scholarship as of years before joining Liberty – the day before 9/11. justice. Is that what you believe? ‘a particular privilege and a special opportunity CG: You still seem to be a storyteller at heart. SC: Absolutely. I think I have been motivated by in light of his vision of a tolerant world You have used the Harry Potter books to illustrate that deep conviction since childhood, and it was governed through principled debate’. why torture is so wrong, and you have referred to certainly fostered in my time at LSE. But we won’t Bonnart’s charitable concerns were formed Atticus Finch, the lawyer hero of get there without a fight. through exceptional life experiences. He was as your role model. And with that Shami Chakrabarti had to hurry to forced to flee his native Austria with his father SC: Yes, and I did bunk lectures at LSE to go and Westminster. As the LSE term loomed, so did a new in 1935, which eventually led to ten months see films. More seriously, it is no disservice to a political season – and there were battles to be won. n of internment in Canada as an enemy alien. complex issue to put it simply, in a way that people After being freed, he joined the British Army will understand – to encourage a form of empathy The conversation between Professor Gearty and Shami Chakrabarti and took part in the Normandy landings was summarised by Claire Sanders. with the main protagonists in a legal drama, an of June 1944. He left the army in 1972 to emotional engagement. become a journalist and commentator on defence affairs, often contributing to The CG: So is it fair to say that you are motivated by Times and International Herald Tribune. The empathy yourself? Should you be? second Bonnart scholar, Yael Weisz-Rind, has SC: As you well know, and have written yourself, just been appointed, and she will focus on we are creatures of faith and reason, propelled by Claire Sanders intolerance within militaristic culture. both emotion and the intellect. I have often found it is head of communications at LSE and commissioning Bonnart’s philanthropy and its focus on easier, for example, to talk to religious people about editor, LSE Magazine. intolerance will continue through the work human rights than to talk to atheists. Decent people of the Frederick Bonnart-Braunthal Trust. of faith understand the concept of human rights, based on their religious sense that we are all equal in the eyes of God – indeed, all equally loved. But those without religion need a philosophical justifica- tion. In your work you have talked of a Darwinian Law and human rights at LSE justification, a political science justification. But for me the key is the democratic justification. In 1995, a year after Shami Chakrabarti had completed her degree, her old tutor, Professor Rick Rawlings, put pen to paper to describe the ‘tradition of Law’ at LSE as part of the CG: You mean that democracy cannot work without School’s centenary celebrations. ‘Simply expressed,’ he wrote, ‘[the School] has taken a strong legal framework? as a core belief, appropriately nurtured in a school of social sciences, that law should SC: I mean more than that. Your statement implies be treated, both in research and in teaching, as a social phenomenon… It has involved that I am relying on the judiciary to set the rules, particular commitment to a functional or contextual approach to legal analysis; to teaching the framework by which we all live. It has to be and research in the whole range of legal regulation and provision; and to law reform.’ the polity, by which I mean civil society and the Today the Law Department is one of the largest in the School, with around 900 students and 57 press, that ensures that today’s democracy does full-time faculty members. It continues to have a distinctive interdisciplinary character and to play not become tomorrow’s dictatorship. a major role in policy debate and policy making. The department moved into LSE’s New Academic CG: Is that why you became a campaigner, to be Building earlier this academic year, complete with a purpose-built moot court. part of that ongoing debate? The Centre for the Study of Human Rights has pioneered the interdisciplinary study of human SC: Well, I became part of that ongoing debate rights in the UK. The Centre has a number of Law Department members on its core team, but is to win! And yes, that is why Liberty is more than based in the Department of Sociology and draws on support from across the School. It runs a a law centre. We do not just represent people in lively programme of public events – see www.lse.ac.uk/collections/humanRights for details. court, we campaign through the court. I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 7 security institutions, the expansion and creation of new programmes promoting security interests; and an explicit ideological linking of development with counter-terrorism. Our research, which we are finalising for a book due out next year, has found that this intensifica- tion of the relations between international devel- AIDING opment assistance and national security interests THE WAR ON TERROR has had consequences for civil societies post-9/11. International donor agencies and foundations have come under pressure to scrutinise their relations with Jude Howell and Jeremy Lind have spent the last two southern partners as the latter become suspect of and a half years researching the impact of the ‘War on Terror’ having links to terrorists. Similarly Muslim charities, on non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and aid. They organisations, mosques and centres have come under the gaze of security agencies, political lead- have found widespread concern that aid is being used to ers and the media as being particularly vulnerable foster allies – not development. to manipulation by Islamic terrorists and as potential sites for the ‘breeding’ of terrorists. Civil society has become not only the target of hen President George Bush uttered the policy. During the Cold War period both the Soviet suspicion in the War on Terror, but also increasingly words ‘you are either with us or you are Union and the West used international development recruited into combating anti-radicalisation and Wwith the terrorists’ in his emergency assistance to foster allies in Africa, Latin and Central preventing terrorism, both domestically and inter- address to Congress on 20 September 2001, in the America, and Asia. The global War on Terror regime nationally. Multilateral and bilateral aid agencies wake of the attacks on the Twin Towers, he called has highlighted the strategic relevance of aid to the as well as foreign policy institutions have all since upon political leaders to stake their positions in pursuit of global and national security interests at a September 2001 sought, to varying degrees, to relation to America and its ‘terrorist’ foes. The sharp time when its ideological rationale in the post-Cold engage more resolutely with Muslim communities, dichotomy posed between allies and enemies War era had almost disappeared. establishing projects and programmes focusing on triggered the most fundamental realignment of In February 2006 we were awarded funding, Muslim groups identified as particularly vulnerable global political relations since the end of the Cold through a major ESRC-funded programme into to radicalisation. War. Since then governments across the world Non-Governmental Public Action, to look at Though there has rightly been considerable have rushed to introduce a swathe of counter-ter- the impact of the War on Terror on NGOs and focus in scholarly work and practice on the human rorist legislation, measures and practices, justifying aid. It has already been well documented that, rights implications of the War on Terror, less atten- this with the refrain of exceptionality. Civil liberties in the post-9/11 context, aid has been drawn tion has been given to its impact on civil societies activists, human rights lawyers and sceptical into the web of the War on Terror, with military and on aid policies and practices. Over the past politicians have in many countries expressed con- and development assistance to key frontline year we have sought to describe and analyse the cern at the effects of hasty anti-terrorist legislation states such as Pakistan, Iraq and Afghanistan effects of this new global War on Terror regime on on citizens’ rights and liberties. increasing considerably. But the harnessing of aid policy and practice as it relates to supporting As well as introducing new security laws, measures international development assistance into the non-governmental public action around poverty, and policies, the so-called ‘War on Terror’ has used prosecution of this ‘war’ has not been limited to rights and social justice in aid-recipient countries. international development and military aid as a tool increased resource allocations to strategic states; The three case studies of Afghanistan, Kenya and to reward and persuade. International development it has also required a shift in development priorities, India have yielded detailed new material about assistance has always been a key part of foreign in greater engagement between development and the effects on non-governmental public action in Kenyans use a broken door to carry an injured man to an ambulance, following the different political contexts and shifts in aid policy 1998 bombing of the American Embassy in Nairobi and practice around supporting civil society. They have been supported by the work of scholars from each of these regions, who have visited LSE this year to contribute to the project. n

Jude Howell is a professor in the Social Policy department, NGPA director

TORU MORIMOTO/PANOS PICTURES and director of the Centre for Civil Society at LSE.

Jeremy Lind was a research officer on the ‘Global War on Terror’ NGPA and Aid research project. Dr Lind is currently a lecturer at the .

8 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I say: ‘I don’t like this guy, so let’s freeze his assets and call him a threat.’ ‘Our fear is that some of these measures are draconian, some of these measures are unconstitutional,’ he says. ‘There is a “you’re with us or you’re against us” attitude.’ Of course, there have been incidences of terror- ism in Kenya. In 1998 the American Embassy in Nairobi was bombed, leaving around 212 casu- alties and more than 3,000 wounded – many of them Kenyans. Said was just a young man at the time. He stares into his coffee mug as he recalls that day a decade ago. ‘It was really terrible. I was about 300 metres away when it happened. I lost many friends.’ But according to Said, attacks like this have always targeted Israeli and American interests ‘leav- ing Kenyans caught up in the cross-fire’. He passion- ately believes that this is a global issue, and Kenya should attempt to develop ‘a real dialogue between West and East’. Rather than American-backed legislation on counter-terrorism, Said emphasises the need for a truly Kenyan discourse which has human rights as its core tenet. After the 1998 attack, several Muslim charities CASE STUDY in Nairobi were closed down as part of an anti- Islamic backlash. Suspicions of Muslims have In June 2008 Said Abdalla (pictured) arrived in London on an deepened since then, prompting Said and his friends to form the Muslim Human Rights Forum ESRC NGPA fellowship based in LSE’s Centre for Civil Society. in 2005. He hopes a summer at LSE will help him One of three fellows invited to LSE to contribute to Jude Howell’s understand exactly how US policies are affecting and Jeremy Lind’s research into the impact of the ‘War on Terror’ civil society in his home country. He hopes Obama, on NGOs and aid, he met student journalist Lindsey Hall and whose father was Kenyan, will be more receptive to civil society than Bush was. Rather than huge described his life and research. security budgets, he says, the new president needs to listen to what civil society in Kenya is saying. Said Abdalla meets me on the nearly deserted LSE but Reuters reports the concerns of human rights Studying at LSE also gives Said the chance to campus one hazy afternoon in mid-June. At the groups that detainees have been shipped to detention network at an international level, and much of his time of our interview he is in his third week of a centres in Somalia, Ethiopia and Guantanamo Bay, time in London is spent meeting with UK human fellowship which will see his studies at LSE through where they are being held without trial as suspected rights organisations, including groups that have until the end of August. His goal is to explore the terrorists. MHRF has encouraged debate in Kenya worked to raise awareness of the regional rendition role of civil society in Nairobi. on the renditions by publishing an influential report on programme in the Horn of Africa. So far he has Said first learned of LSE’s Civil Society Centre while the ‘Horn of Terror’, which documented in detail the been pleasantly surprised by the positive response he was working with the Muslim Human Rights Forum illegal transfer of the ‘terror suspects’ outside of Kenya. to his work. It helps that he’s doing his research (MHRF), a Kenya-based volunteer organisation which The War on Terror poses problems for Kenya, a at a time when human and Muslim rights are a aims to raise awareness about the threat the War on country struggling to establish a stable democracy. hot topic in London; the 42 day detention issue Terror poses to human rights. Since January 2007, Interference from outside powers like the US is is the subject of heated debate in Parliament and Said says, around 150 people have been renditioned making Said’s dream of an independent Kenya the media, with the final decision just days away – transferred in secret from one country to another difficult to achieve. The War on Terror doesn’t help at the time of our meeting. outside any legal process – by the Kenyan govern- Kenyans, he says, but it does serve as a convenient ‘Nelson Mandela was imprisoned as a terrorist,’ ment as they crossed the border, fleeing violence in veil for hiding other motives. For example, Said Said says, suggesting that we must learn from Somalia. The details remain shrouded in mystery, explains, it gives corrupt politicians an excuse to history and raise the level of dialogue. ‘The War on Terror targets superficial, material causes, but the roots of the conflict stretch far deeper.’ n Professor Jude Howell and Dr Jeremy Lind’s ‘Global War on Terror’, Non-Governmental Public Action and Aid research is part of a major research programme, funded in 2004 by the Economic and Social Research Council, called Non-Governmental Public Action (NGPA). Non-governmental public actors are increasingly powerful at international, national and local levels and the idea behind the project was to gain a better understanding of how non-governmental public action works and its contribution to social transformation and poverty reduction. Jude Howell was appointed director Lindsey Hall of the ESRC NGPA research programme, which involves nearly 40 multidisciplinary, has just completed her master’s in Media and international research projects across a number of universities and countries. Communications at LSE and now works as an editorial assistant at the Financial Times.

I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 9 How are our global cities changing in a rapidly urbanising world? Four years into a major investigation, Ricky Burdett looks at the lessons that are emerging for future planners and policy makers.

New York feels eneath the skin of the world’s cities lie deep of urban dwellers on the planet could reach 75 ‘ connections between social cohesion and per cent. The Endless City, recently published by delicate and even Bbuilt form, between public transport and Phaidon, illustrates the findings of the first phase social justice, between public space and tolerance, of this interdisciplinary investigation in six major fragile in contrast to and between governance and the way urban urban centres – Johannesburg, London, New York, citizens live their lives. More than ever before, the Mexico City, Shanghai and Berlin. The second the heroic scale and shape of cities – how much land they occupy, how ongoing phase is focusing on Mumbai, São Paulo, much energy they consume, how their transport Istanbul and other growing cities of Asia, South pace of change in infrastructure is organised and where people are America and the wider Mediterranean region. housed – in remote, segregated environments Together with the extremes of São Paulo, Mexico the febrile mercantile behind walls or in integrated neighbourhoods City perhaps best exemplifies the tensions between city of Shanghai close to jobs, facilities and transport – defines the spatial and social order of the Urban Age cities. ’ environmental, economic and social sustainability Its endless low-rise spread, with 60 per cent of its

of global society. Even under the uncertainties of 20 million inhabitants living in illegal and informal NELSON KON the current economic climate, cities will continue housing, conceals a fast developing landscape of to be places where the tensions and potential of difference exacerbated by the dominance of the car society are concentrated well into the 21st century. in a city where petrol is cheap. Investment into two- These are the questions addressed by LSE’s tier motorways, rather than the type of sustainable Urban Age project, jointly organised with the public transport that has so successfully transformed Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society. Since Bogotá or Curitiba, is pulling the city even further 2005 the Urban Age has been documenting how apart, lengthening commuting times for its workers Of the nearly 18 million people living in Mumbai’s Metropolitan Region, the literacy rate of the total cities are changing in the context of a rapidly and pushing the poor to the far fringes of this seem- population is 87 per cent compared to a national urbanising world where over 50 per cent of the ingly limitless city. Here the rich seek protection in average of 65 per cent. For all cities in developing global population now live in cities – 100 years ago golf-course residential typologies in armed and gated worlds, adult literacy rates are significantly higher than their national context it was only ten per cent and by 2050 the number communities, or in the emerging vertical ghettoes of Santa Fe with their shimmering high-rises overlooking the organic but well established shanty towns – towns where the vibrant informal sector constitutes 60 per cent of the city’s economy. The civic leaders of Johannesburg face similar but more extreme challenges in tackling growth and change. In a region that will become one of the most highly populated in Africa – the twelfth most populous in the world by 2050 despite the effects of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and an average life expectancy of 52 – Johannesburg has set itself the target of becoming a ‘global city region’. Home to the city’s major financial institutions until the end of apartheid in 1994, the central, gritty district of Hillbrow has become in part a no-go area in the space of a few years. At night the downtown area is eerie, with the flickering lights of makeshift kitchens in multi- storey apartments indicating the presence of a new,

RAJESH VORA disenfranchised urban subclass – which includes many immigrants from neighbouring countries. The effect of this transformation has been profoundly spatial. A large percentage of the city’s business

10 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I NELSON KON of urban change. The sheer density of the city and of urbanchange.Thesheerdensity ofthecityand the importance of built form in sustaining cycles shops tocorporate headquarters – underscoring forms of economic activity – from garment sweat- groups, artistsandculturalentrepreneurs, andvarying modating wavesofcolonisationby different ethnic by shops,hasdemonstratedresilience, accom regular urbangridandactivestreet frontages lined with residential blocksarrangedalongatightand white, non-Hispanicorigin.Itscompacturban core, people livinginthecity’s fiveboroughs are ofnon- minority’ city,where overhalfoftheeightmillion ‘melting-pot’ statusastheonlyAmerican‘majority- Today thedensestcityinUSAisbuildingonits conflict, crimeandeconomicdeclineinthe1990s. experienced andrecovered from aperiodofrelative the onlylifelinetojobs. expensive communaltaxiservicewhichconstitutes no public transport except for the unreliable and physically ifnotpoliticallysegregated, withlittleor the formerlysegregated blacktownshipsremain cally empowered blacks.SowetoandAlexandra, families andthenewemergingclassofeconomi gated residential communities–inhabitedbywhite fast expandingseaofwalledshoppingcentres and centres ofSandtonandRosebank,surrounded bya institutions havemovedouttoanodynesuburban 37 percentofthepopulationinBrazillivefavelas Residents oftheParaisópolisfavelasitcheek-by-jowltowealthierhigh-risegatedcomplexesMorumbiinSãoPaulo.Atbeginning21stcent ury, East rivers support what is one of the most efficient East riverssupport whatisoneofthemostefficient its physical distribution between the Hudson and New York isalsogrowing, onceagain,having - - city. Shanghai’s city plannersare aware thatinthe public realm, theground ofthe levelinevery corner and, more significantly for its negative impact on the fuelling the housing boom that marks the skyline, a smallcar. Today, thatspacehasatleastdoubled, Shanghai wassixsquare metres, roughly thesizeof average living space available to a single person in facilities insidetheirhomes.Only15 yearsago,the its emergingprofessional class,formore spaceand powering demandbythecity’s residents, especially many citiesoftheglobalsouth,butalsoover not onlythehighlevelsofin-migration,typicalso behind thishyper-scale residential developmentare making inacityofover18millionpeople.Thedrivers that constituteShanghai’s urbanexperiment-in-the- tunities, andofisolatedreflecting glassskyscrapers billboards advertising the very same real estate oppor blocks neatly aligned atequaldistances –ofvast cutter gatedcommunities–regimented apartment over alandscapeofserialduplicationscookie- Shanghai airporttothe‘centre’, the monorailflies from Magnetic Levitation(Maglev)trainjourney years. Asonetravelsonthe373km/h,15minute of more thaneightstoreys havebeenbuiltwithin25 mercantile cityofShanghai–where over5,000towers to theheroic scaleandpaceofchangeinthefebrile commuter transportisusedbyonly20percent). the populationtogowork(inLosAngelespublic public transit systems in the world, used by over half New York feelsdelicateandevenfragileincontrast - - Urban AgeSummit intheGermancapital.For Wowereit charmingly defended his city at the is likelytoremain thesame. scale ofurbandevelopment ofgrowth, the pattern current mayaffect thepaceand economicdownturn reality oflivingandworkinginLondon.Whilethe fitting thatistransformingtheimage aswellthe depots –haskick-startedaprocess ofurbanretro- railway goodsyards, redundant gasandelectricity ability ofbrownfield sites–ex-industrialareas, old demographic andeconomicgrowth andtheavail- so-called Green Belt.Thecombinationofprojected all growth withinthecity’s existingboundary–the policies oftheLondonPlanistoaccommodate London Authority’s LondonPlan).Oneofthekey new homesayear(asprojected bytheGreater by 400,000newjobsandtheneedforover30,000 many from theenlargedEuropean Unionattracted new Londoners will be from outside the UK and the growth ratesofShanghaiorMexicoCity,most million by2015,amodestfigure incomparisonto people willbe added toLondon’s current total of 7.3 after decadesofdecline.Whileamere 750,000 like NewYork –facesaperiodofpopulationgrowth interests and public intervention, as it once again – be ‘corrected’. be ‘corrected’. made thatatsomepointinthefuture willneedto pursuit ofeconomicprogress, ‘mistakes’are being ‘Poor butsexy!’ishowBerlin’s MayorKlaus London isalsojugglingwiththeinterplayofprivate I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine

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Population growth in the Urban Age cities the London terraced house and the New York grid with its mixed use, multi-storey buildings and active Million ground floor uses, have successfully adapted to 20 Shanghai cycles of social and economic change without setting in stone the temporary or sudden shifts

15 in economic and political life affecting Shanghai, Mumbai Mumbai, Mexico City, Johannesburg and other world centres – a condition brought into even São Paulo sharper focus by the current global economic 10 Mexico City New York crisis. The next generation of city leaders will need London to reverse the trend of increasing fragmentation 5 and discontinuity in favour of more integrated Johannesburg urban structures that build on the local DNA of Berlin each city’s form. 0 At the metropolitan and regional scale, more 1900 1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 compact urban development provides the only sustainable answer to global urban growth. Less sprawl leads to a reduction in energy use and pollu- 2 Berliners, this statement struck a chord amongst So what lessons are emerging from Urban Age’s tion – cities contribute 75 per cent of world CO the city’s residents just as the national government investigation into the future of cities? In its own emissions – and dense cities require less investment refused to take on the full responsibility for the way, each city responds to generic challenges and in public transport, infrastructure and services. The capital’s state of near bankruptcy in 2006. For the opportunities of globalisation, immigration, jobs, retrofitting of New York’s and London’s ageing public outsider, the concept of Berlin as ‘poor’ is difficult social exclusion and sustainability. Immigration is, transport system, investment in extensive under- to reconcile with the pervasive lustre of newness in many ways, the lifeblood of Shanghai, Mexico ground networks in Shanghai and São Paulo, and that defines the reborn centre on both sides of the City and Johannesburg, but the spatial distribution the success of Mexico City’s Metrobús and Bogotá’s former Wall. The misleading predictions of a steep of new arrivals in remote locations starved of the less onerous TransMilenio bus and cycle network, population increase after re-unification, when the most basic facilities and infrastructure (schools, show how city governments prioritise public transport city instead experienced a minor population loss sewers and transport) creates environments that not simply as an end in itself but as a form of social and a high population ‘churn’ – over a third of fail to build on the potential of cities to promote justice providing millions of people with access to Berliners have moved out and been replaced in the cohesion – as described by Richard Sennett, to jobs and amenities. last ten years – reflect the reality of a city with few be places where ‘urban life becomes a source of But the success of these interventions, in many jobs, high unemployment and low wages. Today, mutual strength rather than a source of mutual ways the emerging Urban Age agenda – advo- there is only a handful of global headquarters of estrangement and bitterness’. cating the compact, mixed use, well connected, corporate firms compared to Frankfurt, New York Older cities have accumulated difference over complex and democratic city – runs contrary or London. Yet, the city has demonstrated a resil- time, developing resilient urban structures that to what is happening on the ground in the vast ience in the face of such economic gloom, based accommodate social difference both within their majority of urban areas. Today’s cities are larger to a degree on the spatial quality of its distinctive overall dense but distributed urban structures and than anything we have seen before. They are urban form, composed of perimeter blocks with in the design of the building blocks of urban form – growing at a faster pace, but the shape and the generous courtyards and tree-lined avenues. the housing typology. The Berlin perimeter block, language of the emerging urban landscapes are somewhat familiar. They are, in effect, by-products of outdated western planning models predicated Urban Age’s research focuses on quality of life in urban areas. Implementation of the new on separation rather than inclusion, creating single- promenade for the Waterfronts Development Centre in Mumbai, one of the winners of the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award, resulted from a shared vision and collective action on function zones, elevated motorways and gated behalf of several community organisations and local government communities. We seem to have dumped these models onto the fragile urban conditions of explod- ing cities in the global south. By continuing the work of Jane Jacobs, one of the greatest urbanists of the 20th century, who believed that ‘the look of things and the way they work are inextricably bound together’, the Urban Age is hoping to help

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Ricky Burdett is director of Urban Age and centennial professor in architecture and urbanism at LSE, and chief adviser on architecture and urbanism for the London 2012 Olympics. He is co-editor with Deyan Sudjic of The Endless City (Phaidon, 2008). For more information on Urban Age see www.urban-age.net 12 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I Keeping the nation healthy

LSE academics have helped everal years before the establishment of announced the delegates cheered, little know- shape and steer the National the National Health Service in 1948, William ing that they would be faced with an even more SBeveridge, director of LSE from 1919-37, formidable adversary – Aneurin Bevan! Health Service from birth. played a crucial catalytic role. His visionary 1942 It was in the 1950s that LSE academics began As it celebrates its 60th report on Social Insurance included, as the second to exert a really important influence on the fate and of its baldly stated ‘assumptions’, that after the shape of the NHS. The Conservative opposition birthday this year, Howard war the UK would have ‘a national health service had never been fully converted to the idea of a Glennerster charts a story for prevention and for cure of disease and dis- tax-funded NHS. Looking for means to reduce the of visionaries, protagonists ability… a comprehensive national heath service tax burden and for other ways to finance health will ensure that for every citizen there is available care, the new Conservative government of 1951 and pragmatists. whatever medical treatment he requires, in what appointed a committee of enquiry into the cost ever form he requires it.’ ‘Treatment’ would cover of the NHS chaired by a Cambridge economist, the whole range of care from the GP and hospitals Claude Guillebaud. He turned to the National to ophthalmic and dental care. Institute for Economic and Social Research. They This bold statement, which went far beyond employed a recent Cambridge graduate, Brian his brief, shook the Ministry of Health, which Abel-Smith (later professor of social administra- was discussing far more piecemeal and tentative tion at LSE), to do the economic analysis for the reforms. It caught the public imagination and the committee. The consultant for the whole project Ministry was afraid that Beveridge might even was the occupant of the new chair in social admin- be given the job of designing such a service. To istration at LSE – Richard Titmuss. head this off and respond to the popular expecta- The Guillebaud Report, in 1956, was to infuriate tions the report had raised, the ministry set about both the Treasury and members of the cabinet. The concocting a more radical plan, though still not as economic analysis, published later as a separate radical as the one that was to be adopted later. book by Titmuss and Abel-Smith, showed that far The medical profession certainly saw Beveridge from taking much more of the nation’s resources, as a major protagonist. The BMA were meeting as the NHS was taking significantly less than had Above: After a seven hour meeting, the British Medical Association agree the 1945 election results came through. When his been the case in the 1930s. Particularly worry- to cooperate in the new national failure to gain a seat as a Liberal candidate was ing, capital expenditure had fallen significantly health service, 28 May 1948 and needed to rise substantially if new population Mary Evans Picture Library/ ILLUSTRATED LONDON NEWS demands (and building dilapidations) were to be accommodated. Significant charges would deter

Right: Beveridge arrives at the House access. The report, as the NHS historian Professor of Commons to discuss his famous Webster has put it, ‘achieved stature as a minor report. From Picture Post 1943 classic of modern social analysis’. The big hospital ‘Beveridge: The Fight Is On’ Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images building programme of the 1960s followed. So, too, did the steady rise in health spending as a

Overleaf: A daily Ward Maid cleans share of the GDP. Not until Mrs Thatcher’s time and polishes the floors at Queen did any government dare to question the idea of Mary’s Hospital, Kent, 1960s a tax-funded NHS.

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Titmuss continued to argue for the principle of a failures were so great in service free at the point of use in powerful writing health, we argued, that the and teaching; his last series of lectures, in the New private insurance route for Theatre in the East Building in 1973, was given to funding health was not a packed audiences who knew he had only a few good one. It could lead to months to live. health price inflation and Abel-Smith became an adviser to successive land the Treasury in even Labour secretaries of state for health in the 1960s more trouble, quite apart and 1970s – setting off from the School by half past from issues of fairness. eight to be there before his minister with an hour Nor was large additional of work already done. He was involved in plans funding advisable before to restructure the NHS with Richard Crossman – the service had been plans that were overtaken by the new Conservative made more effective. We government of 1970. He was also involved in suggested experiments advising ministers to put in place a robust statisti- with more decentralised cal method for allocating cash to local areas in a competition. I was later to way that would match the likely demands different hear from a reliable source kinds of populations would put on local services. that this line of argument proved influential, but more than one secretary of state (Virginia Bottomley This gradually corrected the huge unfairness in the who is to know, there were many others! When and Frank Dobson spring instantly to mind) – who distribution of health services that originated long Blair found a decade later that more money was, have been trained at the School to use evidence before the NHS was created. I serve with Gwyn indeed, not a panacea, he turned to Julian le Grand about what works and what does not and to apply Bevan on the committee charged with continuing for advice at Number 10. that evidence in a fearless way. That is the kind of that task and Peter Townsend has chaired the What is clear is that a former LSE director work that colleagues in LSE Health and elsewhere are Welsh equivalent. was important in putting the idea of a compre- continuing to do and there is still a long way to go. n It was not until the late 1980s that another major hensive national health service on the political attempt to rethink the funding and organisation of map. Successive LSE academics have played a the NHS took place. This time there were no LSE part in sustaining the intellectual, economic and academics involved from the inside. But when moral case for a service free at the point of use Mrs Thatcher set up her fundamental review of and advising on how this could be achieved with the service and asked for evidence, three of us humanity and efficiency. But in the end it is arguably produced a combined response: Nick Barr, Julian not policy advice that has made most difference Le Grand and myself. Some kind of mixed private but rather the professional life of past students – Howard Glennerster is professor emeritus of social policy at LSE. He is public insurance model was being explored at the researchers, community physicians, other doctors, author of British Social Policy: 1945 to the present time. We challenged this. Market and information medical social workers and managers and indeed (Blackwell 2007).

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The boot’s on the other foot as anxious academics await their results in the Research Assessment Exercise, writes Howard Davies.

any readers of LSE Magazine will recall these submissions and grade them on a four point output, at the expense of other aspects of the job, those tense periods between the sub- scale under the guidance of super panels managing notably teaching. They also say that the judgements Mmission of written work and the return of similar discipline areas. The definitions of the four reached by these panels are bound to be somewhat the marked script. Would the professor or lecturer points are rather complicated, but a grade 4 is meant subjective. On the other hand, an exercise of this fully appreciate the subtlety of your analysis, the to be given only to a paper which has genuinely kind undoubtedly creates some sharper incentives power of your reasoning, and the elegance of your shifted the paradigm in the study of the subject, and for academics to produce material, and to publish prose? The most extreme version of that tension, advanced the sum of human knowledge in a material it in top, peer-reviewed journals. of course, occurs at examination time. The weeks way. The rest is a bit like the star system used in the Whatever the balance of these arguments, the between writing the exam and receiving a degree Michelin guides, where 1* is merely ‘interesting’, while next results will appear before the end of the year class are not ones many will wish to relive. a 3* paper is ‘definitely worth a visit’. and we shall have to deal with them. There is So spare a thought at present for LSE’s hard Following the categorisation of each of the already a debate about what should happen next working faculty. Because, just at the moment, the submitted papers, a rating for the whole depart- time, and opinion is moving in favour of a greater boot is firmly on the other foot. Our faculty are ment is produced, but that rating will be a bar use of citation counts, in other words the number awaiting a verdict on their work, in the context of graph of the star qualifications for the members of times which a paper is referred to by other the British Government’s Research Assessment of that department whose work was submitted, academics in the field, which is a loose proxy for Exercise. Though this is not true in all countries adjusted in minor ways to incorporate a rating of quality and impact. Unfortunately, it is one which by any means, here there is a systematic assess- the department’s overall research environment and can more easily be used in the sciences than in ment every few years of the quality of research public esteem. So this time there will be something the humanities and social sciences, where citation output in our universities. And that assessment of a smooth curve of results for departments, rather practice is rather different. has a decisive influence on the distribution of than the categorisation into distinct boxes as was How well will LSE do? Frankly we do not know Government research funds for the next five years the case last time. Of course, the newspapers will at this stage. We believe our submission was a or more. So it really matters financially, and also undoubtedly convert these curves into some sort strong one in all the areas in which we work. But it in terms of academic reputation. of numerical league table, and universities are all would be a dramatically strong performance if we These assessments do not happen very often, guessing how this might be done. were to maintain our second position of 2001. So, but when they do they are a time of high anxiety For each university there is certainly a ‘black in the meantime, if you see a particularly nervous for academics across the country. The last one box’ dimension to all this. We do not know quite looking member of the faculty on your travels, it occurred in 2001, and resulted in a ranking of each how each individual panel will approach its work. is probably wise not to ask how many stars he or subject department in each university, on a scale of We do not know whether they will all operate in she expects to earn in the Research Assessment 1 to 5 – though at the top of the scale there were the same way, or rather differently. We don’t quite Exercise. They will get to know soon enough. And also 5* departments. LSE had one 4-ranked depart- know where the borderline between the star classi- just as many of you did when you were here, they ment at that time, and all the rest were either 5 or 5*, fications will lie. But, whatever these uncertainties, will probably argue that the examiners were drunk, which was a very good outcome. Depending on the we will certainly have to live with the outcome. or mad, or both. n way all these scores are aggregated, various league That outcome will then be used by the Funding tables could be produced, but the one we (naturally) Council to determine research fund allocations by preferred had the LSE second, on average, behind university, though the precise way in which that Cambridge and above Oxford. will be done has not yet been disclosed. Will there This time, though, the marking system has been be a weighting of funding towards really excellent changed, and is perhaps even more anxiety making departments in top universities? Or will the avail- for the individual academic than the old version. As able money be spread out in a more even way? before, each faculty member who carries out quality The answers to those questions will depend on research – which in LSE’s case is almost everyone – the steepness of the line which the bean counters was required to submit their four best papers, book draw through these different classification levels. chapters or similar. For each subject there is a panel Is this a good system? Well, there is much controversy Howard Davies made up of highly respected professors from that about it. Some argue that, as a result, academics is director of LSE. discipline. This time each panel is required to read all are almost pathologically focused on their research

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L E B O N E TH ® © Peter Miller’s research on pre-competitive information exchanges has attracted the attention of the Nobel the symposia is that they are devoted to areas of Foundation, who invited him to speak at its recent science where breakthroughs are occurring, or multidisciplinary symposium on Foundations of Organisation. that they deal with other topics of primary cultural or social significance. The symposia cover an Three days of intensive debate later, had the academics extensive range of disciplines from physics and found any common ground? chemistry, through medicine, to economics. The range of topics covered since 1965 is bewildering ost of the time, social scientists talk in the same room, and made to talk to each other and impressive. It includes, to mention just a few: to people they know will largely agree for a couple of days. Elementary (sic) Particle Theory; Disorders of the Mwith them. Rarely do they try talking to A rare and unexpected opportunity to find out Skull Base Region; High Latitude Space Plasma others who start from very different assumptions, was recently offered to me, in the form of an invita- Physics; and Particle Physics and the Universe. or who use fundamentally different methods. This tion to present a paper at a symposium organised In contrast to these lofty topics, the focus of reassures social scientists they’re on the right under the auspices of the Nobel Foundation. I the symposium I was invited to seemed positively track, and it avoids too many daily squabbles. nearly missed the opportunity though, as my initial mundane: Foundations of Organisation. But of This is particularly the case when it comes to reaction to the email header was that it was prob- course it turned out not to be. Likewise with the list economists and sociologists. The former are good ably a hoax. Mentally, I put it in the same category of invited participants. Out of the nearly 50 invited at simplifying and modelling complex issues, even as those emails telling you that there’s 65 million US participants, only two were from UK universities, if the end result appears somewhat distant from dollars waiting to be collected from some obscure and only ten participants, including me, had been the world we live in. The latter are good at making bank account overseas, if only you would send invited to present papers. The other nine were: complex issues even more complex, by describing your personal bank account details. On further Robert Gibbons, Woody Powell, Susan Athey, the contexts and the conditions that gave rise to checking, I found out from the Nobel Foundation Barbara Czarniawska, Stewart Clegg, Jean Tirole, them – again the relevance may not be obvious website that these symposia really do exist, and Ronald Burt, Oliver Hart and Michael Hannan. The to outsiders to the discipline. One often wonders that there have been over a hundred since they panel discussion that concluded the symposium what would happen if a bunch of each were put were initiated in 1965. The guiding principle of was similarly impressive: Bengt Holmstrom, James

LSE and the Nobel Prize Lord Philip Noel- Fourteen LSE alumni or staff members have been awarded Nobel Prizes Baker, for his lifelong dedication to the cause of disarmament and international peace, and in particular for his book , for his work. His plays Ralph Bunche, for his mediation in bringing peace The Arms Race. He was include Man and Superman, Heartbreak House and to Palestine, as the UN mediator during the Arab- the first Sir Ernest Cassel Pygmalion. He was one of LSE’s founders and also a Israeli peace negotiations. He conducted postdoctoral Professor of International founder and devoted member of the . research in anthropology at LSE from 1936 to 1938. Relations at LSE in 1924. 1925 1950 1959

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16 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I March, John Meyer, Charles Perrow, Richard far economics has travelled in recent years. So this novel organisational forms based on synergies,

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TI A of these people personally, many of them had although one participant ruefully remarked that information exchanges that occur without vertical D N already written seminal papers or books when I there is a slight tendency for one discipline to integration. I took as my specific example the U O F was studying for my doctorate. This was about ‘discover’ a phenomenon, just as another disci- so-called ‘Moore’s Law’, which suggests (rather L E B O the best opportunity I would have to see whether pline is coming to regard it as passé. Of course, puzzlingly, but so far more or less accurately) that N E something positive could come out of an exchange many issues demonstrated the gap between the the power of computer chips doubles approxi- TH ® © among economists, organisation theorists, political different disciplines represented at the symposium: mately every two years, with no increase in cost. scientists, social psychologists and sociologists. the question of power, however defined, proved This, together with industry-wide ‘Roadmaps’, Regardless of what I thought deep down about something of a sticking point for those coming sets the pace of change in the computer industry the likelihood of success, optimism seemed the from sociology, as did the insistence on modelling as companies both cooperate and compete to best attitude to adopt. for those coming from economics. produce newer technologies, with related indus- The optimism policy worked well. This was After two days of intensive debate, I had the task tries caught in the same cycle. no doubt helped by us meeting on neutral of presenting my own paper, and with an interesting Speaking at the end of the day has some ground (Sweden), and at a particular location dilemma: how to do so without both losing existing benefits. My session, and any particularly difficult ques- (Saltsjöbaden) which had proved to be a very friends and gaining new enemies! For, rather than tions it might have produced, had to conclude to successful venue in the past for building bridg- chide either economists or sociologists for some allow us to take a most pleasant boat trip around es. For it was in Saltsjöbaden, in 1938, that the misdemeanour, I wanted to argue that both had the archipelago. This put us all in a good mood Swedish Employers’ Association and the Swedish failed to adequately address an important issue for for the concluding panel the following day. As Trade Union Confederation had met and come to modes of organising in the modern economy. The for how far we progressed in the three days? an agreement that was to provide the basis for issue in question was the extensive and systematic Well, the ‘Saltsjöbaden spirit’ prevailed (most Swedish social democracy. Since then, people pre-competitive information exchanges among of the time), even if the academic equivalent have coined the term ‘Saltsjöbaden spirit’, to firms, industries and a broad range of research of social democracy was not fully hammered designate the willingness to cooperate and agencies that characterise some sectors. The out in the three days that we were together. embrace a collective sense of responsibility. industry I took as my exemplar was microproces- And the organisers – Lars Engwall and Tore So the venue boded well for the symposium, sors. While sociologists and organisation theorists Ellingsen – were warmly congratulated for such an and it quickly became clear that there were some have depicted economic action as embedded unprecedented initiative. n potentially fruitful points of contact for the various in interactions with other individuals and within disciplines. Organisational or behavioural econom- institutional networks, they have only very recently ics offered one possible meeting point, as did started to address the roles of the various calcula- empirical questions such as the distinctive forms tive practices that provide the infrastructure which of organising that characterise the biotech field. enables some markets to operate. Economists, And the recognition by economists of ‘prosocial’ on the other hand, have argued for the need to Peter Miller behaviour in one of the papers demonstrated how develop an economic analysis of institutions and is professor of management accounting at LSE.

James Meade (jointly) for a Amartya Sen, for his contributions to welfare George Akerlof (jointly), for path-breaking contribution to the economics. His work restored an ethical dimension his analysis of markets with theory of international trade and to economics. He was professor of economics asymmetric information. He international capital movements. He at LSE from 1971 to 1977 and continued to was Cassel Professor with taught at LSE from 1947 to 1957 teach part-time at the School until 1982. respect to money and banking and was a professor of commerce. 1998 at LSE from 1978 to 1980. 1977 2001 Ronald Coase, for his discovery and clarification of the significance of Sir John Hicks (jointly), for his Sir Arthur Lewis transaction costs and property rights for pioneering contribution to general (jointly) for pioneering the institutional structure and functioning Leonid Hurwicz (jointly), for economic equilibrium theory research into economic of the economy. He studied at LSE having laid the foundations of and welfare theory. He taught development research from 1929 to 1932 and was a member mechanism design theory. He at LSE from 1926 to 1935. with particular of LSE staff from 1935 to 1951. studied for a PhD at LSE in 1938. 1972 consideration of the 1991 2007 problems of developing countries. He was a student at LSE from 1934 to 1937, and PA PHOTOS a member of staff from 1938 to 1948. 1979

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Friedrich von Hayek (jointly) for Merton Miller (jointly) Robert Mundell, for his pioneering work in the theory of for pioneering work in his analysis of monetary money and economic fluctuations the theory of financial and fiscal policy under and for a penetrating analysis of the economics. He was different exchange interdependence of economic, social and an assistant lecturer in rate regimes and his institutional phenomena. He lectured at American economic analysis of optimum LSE from 1931 to 1950 and was professor history at LSE from currency areas. He is an of economic science and statistics. 1952 to 1953. LSE alumnus (1956). 1974 1990 1999

I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 17 MediatingMedia the LSE has one of the highest media profiles of any university in the UK, with its academics frequently commenting on and steering the major policy debates of the day. It is also supremely positioned to comment on the media itself. As the Media and Communications Department celebrates its first five years,Warwick Smith provides a brief guide to LSE and the media and interviews two alumni who now bestride the media stage.

s students and academics prepared for introduced the session by showing how access the 2008 Michaelmas term earlier this to media and information helps people to make A year, nearly 300 academics and media informed decisions about their lives, helping to practitioners gathered at LSE for a conference reduce poverty and promote human rights. entitled ‘Media, Communication and Humanity’. ‘Media practitioners and academics need a For the Media and Communications department, place in which they can exchange ideas and the founded by the late Professor Roger Silverstone department is ideally positioned to do that,’ said and now headed by Professor Robin Mansell, it Professor Mansell. ‘It is also producing postgradu- was a chance to offer interdisciplinary and critical ates with an in-depth, critical and interdisciplinary perspectives on the many ways in which the media understanding of the media.’ shapes our perceptions. In its first academic year, 2003/04, the department 08 recruited 116 students onto its PhD programme and its four master’s programmes. Today that number has doubled to 237 with a variety of MSc programmes ence and former students making their mark. Grace Khoza, for example, a student in the first mediaconfer MSc cohort, is now working for the South African communicationand humanity government as director for marketing and strategic coordination in the department of foreign affairs. At the media conference, left to right: Visiting She is also working with the UN Security Council fellow Dr Zhang Yanqui, to develop a communications strategy for non- with speakers Professors Daniel Dayan, Carolyn permanent members of the Council. ‘My work Marvin and has certainly been a challenge,’ she comments Sonia Livingstone Professor Mansell said: ‘Today’s media and ‘and I have had many occasions to draw from and communication environment – the press, broad- reflect on my academic studies.’ casting and the internet – mediates our under- Equally Jonathan Daly, who joined TBWA\, a standing of global events. The conference reflected leading global advertising agency, after graduat- the fundamental questions asked by the depart- ing, and now works for the World Bank Group as ment, such as how does the media influence an associate in the external affairs vice-presiden- our values, our actions and our social relations?’ cy, talks of the value of his time at LSE. ‘In this In keeping with the department’s close links new role, I rely on my LSE media training more with the media, the conference kicked off with a than ever. The critical thinking skills developed session profiling the BBC World Service Trust’s during my MSc are proving invaluable, and the humanitarian projects, showing how the BBC understanding I gained of theories of commu- works in partnership with audiences and NGOs. nication comes into play everyday, in helping David Eades, the BBC World News journalist, to advise others on what to say, how to say it,

18 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I Jana Bennett than just “How do I get a job?” or “What are the skills I need?”, can be very valuable in a more As an LSE student, admits Jana Bennett, she fragmented industry.’ would occasionally nip across the road from But is an increasingly international media – Houghton Street for a drink in the subsidised bar driven by the speed of the internet and global at the BBC’s Bush House. cloning of television formats – also increasingly Fast forward three decades and she’s still to be homogenous? Jana thinks not, arguing that the found at the BBC – as director of Vision. But as very best television has always had an impact one of the corporation’s most senior executives, around the world. She cites the BBC’s pioneer- carrying overall responsibility for all of its television ing of natural history documentary – creating and online content and with a budget of £1 billion, new techniques and a narrative style which have it’s a fair bet you won’t often find her in the bar. defined the genre and which have been adopted Not that her days studying for an MSc in by broadcasters from New York to Tokyo. Local International Relations (graduating in 1978) are documentaries, she says, are also one of the entirely forgotten. Jana, an Anglo-American, says things that television does especially well. the windows on the world that LSE helped her In any event, she says, a good television open have framed her outlook ever since: ‘It was programme is something to be celebrated: ‘As the international, outward looking perspective of we’ve discovered more and more in the last Jana Bennett LSE which particularly attracted me, as well as decade, a good format that works here – like (MSc International Relations 1978) Director of BBC Vision the course. The fact that I would therefore be Strictly Come Dancing, a wonderful format that mixing with students of many different countries, is life affirming – works in almost every territory. and whether what we’re talking about should as well as my fellow Brits and Americans – that There aren’t many formats which have that qual- even be the subject.’ international student make-up was part of the ity but the ones that do (it’s also true of X Factor The engagement of LSE with the media is appeal. It was a great time to be an international and Pop Idol or American Idol) take root and are also boosted by LSE’s media think tank, POLIS, relations student because there were a lot of embraced by those populations. Yes, with the which works alongside the department. Headed by debates about arms control, the nature of the speed of transmission the globe is shrinking, but Charlie Beckett, a journalist who worked at BBC Soviet bloc, and what was going to happen next. my view is that programmes with near-universal and ITN, POLIS has established itself as the place ‘I’d like to think LSE has helped me to scan appeal don’t come along often and there are for journalists to come for informed and speedy the further horizons. Certainly I was able to bring probably others fading at the same time, so I comment on high profile media events. ‘POLIS is that to the first part of my career – as a news and don’t believe we’ll end up with too homogenised a unique forum to discuss all aspects of British current affairs journalist – and then in shaping a global entertainment.’ and international news media,’ explains Beckett. documentaries since, for example the BBC’s For those at the beginning of a media career, ‘We bring together the public, journalists and recent multi-channel Africa season, and our Jana knows better than most what qualities academics to examine the revolution in our media. coverage of climate change as a global issue.’ Her the BBC looks for in graduate applicants. They It’s a place where LSE can communicate with the career has also included a stint as executive vice should include, she suggests, a generous team media world and spark ideas. As a journalist I have president of the Discovery channel in the USA. spirit (‘there aren’t as many solo people as the been able to share LSE’s critical insights with the Having joined the BBC as a news trainee, myth of creativity might suggest’), a curiosity industry and give the media perspective on our Jana’s rise through the corporation was as a combined with the ability to break open new teaching and research.’ hands-on programme maker on shows that ideas, and an intellectual passion for something Further informing the links between LSE and the included Panorama and Horizon. Unlike some specialised. ‘Because I studied arms control at media is the LSE Media Group, a special interest sceptics in her industry however, she can see LSE, I ended up being in a pole position when group set up for and run by LSE alumni who work advantages in studying media theory (such the Chernobyl meltdown happened. That led me or have an interest in the media industry. The group as in the courses taught by LSE’s Media and to work on science programmes and to a whole is unusual in its embracing definition of the media Communications department) for those who want second education in science, and eventually I to include advertising, journalism, public relations, to work in the media: ‘I think an understanding became head of Science at the BBC. Harnessing new media, entertainment, publishing, marketing of the ethics that go into producing, researching something that you’re particularly educated in – and other creative interests. Active in the UK and and conceiving content of all sorts is incredibly whether that’s a passion for playing the guitar or US, it meets several times a year to network and important – standards are a huge issue in this an academic subject you have studied – can be debate issues such as trust in television, internet industry. A media course which can add to that absolutely invaluable.’ censorship, the state of the British film industry, understanding and help you analyse the purpose spin-doctoring in political news reporting and the of a programme, and addresses much more challenges in the publishing industry. t I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 19 Mediating the media

Daniel Finkelstein ‘One of the people who influenced me was Robert McKenzie, the inventor of the swingometer. I ap- Anyone looking for evidence of how the media, proached him about becoming president of the political and academic worlds overlap should meet LSE debating society, which I had set up. I hoped Daniel Finkelstein. he would help us encourage speakers to debates, Now chief leader writer of The Times, Danny has but he said he couldn’t encourage his friends to found that ideas provide a basic currency which is speak while the Students’ Union had a policy of No equally welcome in all three markets. While his role Platform – where anyone who was deemed racist at The Times has meant writing, commissioning and or sexist wasn’t allowed to come and speak. The editing the opinion pieces he hopes will stimulate policy had been used to ban Hot Gossip, the Kenny Daniel Finkelstein debate from the pages of the newspaper, his fasci- Everett dance band, to boycott Timothy Raison, the (BSc Economics 1983) Chief leader writer, The Times nation for social and political thinking also led him to Home Office minister, and to discourage the Israeli work first at the Social Market Foundation think tank ambassador. It was working to overturn that policy and then as political adviser to Conservative leaders – successfully – that politicised me.’ you do with that. Ironically, I think a belief that there John Major and William Hague. Danny remembers a ‘fantastically high standard of are variations in the lottery of ability and that equality ‘My role at The Times, you couldn’t predict it,’ he staff’ who taught him at LSE, including Andrew Dilnot, of opportunity will inevitably produce quite a wide says. ‘I did none of the things that you would tell some- Julian Le Grand, Sir Roy Allen, Kenneth Minogue and disparity of result, leads you to become somewhat body they should do – I didn’t go to journalism school, Richard (now Lord) Layard. ‘It was a very exciting more paternalistic and compassionate rather than I was mainly political at LSE, and I ended up working place to be intellectually and politically.’ more right wing, because you realise that people’s here because the editor was interested in some of the His advocacy of the power of the social sciences lot in life is not their own fault entirely.’ ideas I had rather than my journalistic skills. has grown stronger over the years: he argues that This mix of passionate argument and intellectual ‘I really wanted to spend my life thinking, writing, advances in evolutionary psychology and behavioural curiosity won’t surprise anyone who met Danny at taking part in good politics, and I’ve set out to do that economics mean we are on the verge of a revolu- university. He said: ‘When I was working at the Social very single-mindedly. Work takes up so much of your tion in understanding why humans behave as they Market Foundation with my friend Andrew Cooper life that you can’t afford to fritter it on something you do. ‘When I was studying economics I wondered who had been a fellow student at LSE, another don’t like. It’s in your control – that’s the first thing I what would happen if you relaxed the assump- friend of ours from 15 years before rang up and said would say to any student who reads this.’ tion that human beings behaved as economic “Great to speak to you, what are you doing?” and Danny’s time at LSE (graduating in Economics models suggested they would behave. In the last Andrew said: “Do you remember what Danny and in 1983) was one of political upheaval in the UK, 25 years a lot of the most cutting-edge economics I used to do – having funny political ideas, trying to including the founding of a new party by disaffected has been precisely about relaxing that assump- implement them, and joking about politics? Well, Labour members: ‘Actually LSE was the first place in tion, and economics, with social psychology and we’re still doing that, only now someone’s paying the whole country where the SDP [Social Democratic sociology, has become richer and better able to us.” That’s essentially the story of my life.’ n Party] won an election. It was 1981, but before the explain the world. party was formally established, and the SDP won ‘It seems to me unlikely that we are the only the sabbatical election. The SDP group at LSE was species whose behaviour isn’t primarily evolutionary. formed out of a dispute in the Labour Club, and the But let’s say that we conclude from this that some disagreements, particularly over free speech issues, people are more capable of intellectual understand- led me as one of the moderates out of the Labour ing and achievement than others. Does thinking that club and into the SDP. make you right wing or left wing? Neither, because Warwick Smith you’re still left with the fundamental decision of what is head of the Press and Information Office at LSE.

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or many years LSE has been leading the international and global field in accumulating Fdata and theories about every aspect of the human world. And each year the data becomes more comprehensive and more reliable, the theories more robust, more simple, and more watertight. Errors are rooted out, exceptions explained, theoretical coherence sharpened, and the precise cutting tools of analysis honed to a finer and finer edge. Incremental social science has not only hit the ground running, but has continued to run with such speed that it is now whizzing through hyperspace at greater and greater velocities, whilst the rest of the world desperately tries to keep up. What is on the radar is the end of uncertainty as we know it. Already much of existing dilettante social science has been disproved, and the working group on concrete universals has not only proved that Hegel was incorrect, but is on the brink of proving that there was no such person or that even if there were, it was a mistake. Within the foreseeable future, and probably even before the oil runs out, we will have a final version of the human social project to match that of the human genome. LSE will have produced the final and authoritative account of everything, or at least everything worth having an account of. Foundation so generously funded at the start and The Soviet Commonwealth of Great Britain, And that is the problem. Once there is nothing of the millennium, and which looked at available 1921 to the Present. These will be followed in years more of any significance to know, there will be no scenarios for academic employment beyond the two and three by You Are What You Eat: diet as the research of any significance to carry out, no seminars year 2040. Discord aims to keep the universities, or determinant of voting and Climate and Constitutions: worth conducting, no funding bodies who think there at least this one, open by reintroducing uncertainty, the influence of precipitation on polities. is anything worth funding, no articles worth writing, ambiguity, and confusion into the social sciences. Meanwhile the library has introduced the creative no books or journals worth reading. Anything that When Discord is fully rolled out and comprehen- doubt scheme. Any book which has been borrowed needs to be known will be on the databases of the sively on stream, there will be nothing that it has will, on being returned, be placed in a locked vault Research Councils, and when you need them, they not turned upside down and inside out, and it and all reference to it in the catalogue erased. No will be only a mouse click away. It will be not so much will involve all of the School’s departments. The one will ever be certain again that they have read a matter of knowing the place for the first time, as Mathematics Department is currently leading the what they think they have read, since no learning knowing it for the last time. The School will be like way with its slogan ‘2 + 2 = 5 for extremely large experience will be repeatable. The world will, each a group of doctors when the last disease has been values of 2’, but Geography is close behind with its day, become newer and more unknown, and so eradicated and the world made safe from accidents ESRC funded project on ‘Does America really exist?’ more open to exploration. The universities will flourish, of all kinds. Absolute and total academic redundancy Ground breaking (and mould breaking) courses are and LSE’s old motto will be replaced with Castores? will have been achieved. already being test run in the Department of Rule and Quis castores sunt? (‘Beavers? What are beavers?’) Faced with this prospect of species extinction, Rebellion. Uncertainty is all, and the department has But of course by the time you read this, that too will social scientists at LSE have launched the Discord cancelled all of its existing courses, and introduced n Project. The project is a development from the two compulsory first year undergraduate counter- have been replaced. earlier Bayesian Academic Best Employment factual modules: Charles Edward Stuart XIV and Longevity pilot (BABEL) which the Methuselah the Government of Scotland in the 20th Century, Rodney Barker

I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 21 Willing VOLUNTEERS Busy student Lindsey Hall admires the spirit of volunteering that is alive and well at LSE.

am a student, with exams to study for, and abroad, a continuing engagement with the at their time management; they seem to do it all. papers to write and people to interview. As I humanitarian organisation Médecins du Monde and School, work, and then something extra.’ But Irush headlong down the Strand to meet one a recently completed degree in Health, Community surely with exams to study for and a dissertation such interviewee, volunteering is the last thing and Development, Livia is up for the challenge. to write, there’s just no time? on my mind. The goal of the Volunteer Centre is to facilitate In fact, even the most swamped student can Livia Ottisova, on the other hand, is calm and volunteering, she explains, turning students’ eagerness break free from the Library and volunteer for a collected when I meet her, quietly sipping her coffee. to volunteer into reality by putting them in contact one-day project, Livia emphasises. She is actively She has recently been appointed coordinator of with existing projects around London. ‘Students here seeking to create more one-off volunteer projects, LSE’s Volunteer Centre, taking over from Renata are so committed to volunteering. My main goal is as well as ‘virtual’ volunteering opportunities that Albuquerque who had been steering it since 2005. to make it easier.’ can be done in students’ own time. ‘Once a person Mobilising LSE’s army of would-be student volun- As a former LSE master’s student, Livia is realistic volunteers once and sees how easy and rewarding teers is no small feat, but with her passion for about students’ hectic lives. ‘Projects need to fit it is, that person is much more likely to volunteer sharing LSE’s energy and knowledge with the into their schedules.’ Nonetheless, she says the again,’ she reasons. London community, a background that includes feedback the Volunteer Centre receives about LSE volunteers come from a range of depart- eight years of volunteering experience both home them is consistently excellent. ‘I’m always amazed ments, from Social Policy and Law to Accounting,

behind to skateboard, play basketball and graduating in 2008. She went on to volunteer Katja Hokkanen generally let loose with kids aged five to 11. with AfriKids, a children’s rights organisation atja Hokkanen is one of those that works with communities in Ghana, while The one day a week participation meant international master’s students who looking for a full-time job. ‘Every opportunity volunteering didn’t interfere with her studies. used the Volunteer Centre to see a of gaining practical experience will enhance K On the contrary, the experience went hand side of London beyond LSE. While studying your chances when you look for a job.’ in hand with Katja’s degree specialising in for a master’s in Social Policy and Planning, children’s rights and protection. ‘I wanted the Swedish student volunteered with to volunteer with children in London, and Salusbury World in Queen’s Park. Salusbury preferably refugee children, as I planned to write is dedicated to providing equal opportunities my dissertation on child poverty in London, for refugee children. As part of its programme so I had both a research and a practical it runs an after school club, which is where interest in the organisation,’ she explained. Katja found herself volunteering as an after school play club worker. The role was a The experience was such a positive one that chance to leave LSE lectures and research Katja immediately leapt into a new project after ANDREANNA SEYMORE/GETTY IMAGES

22 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I International Relations and Economics. There LSE students into its administration, community are many more female volunteers than males service and research. and more graduate students than undergraduate Livia is particularly eager to develop relation- ones. Livia tells me that the Volunteer Centre ships between student research and volunteer offers valuable opportunities for LSE’s majority organisations. The Refugee Children Project (RCP) international student population to explore new is one such successful example of an LSE student parts of London and get involved with communities approaching an organisation with the Volunteer they wouldn’t otherwise meet. For example, Street Centre’s help; master’s student Katja received League is a project which gives student volunteers funding to run focus groups with refugee parents the chance to coach football teams made up of for her dissertation, and the RCP benefited from homeless men. The theory, she explains, is that her research. ‘The Centre aims to facilitate such providing these men with a sense of structure and exciting, mutually beneficial projects, connecting teamwork will prepare them for the job market and theory to policy and action,’ Livia says. encourage them to engage with society; it also ‘Volunteering is a fantastic experience and we gives volunteers valuable leadership experience. have lots of things on offer,’ she says, genuinely Volunteering work can also bring students right excited about her job. Her enthusiasm has got me up against complex issues. One such project is thinking that maybe I’m not so busy after all. n called Until the Violence Stops (UTVS). Based on the Eve Ensler drama Vagina Monologues, UTVS is an international network which pairs volunteers with children from communities marked by violence. Together, they use art and theatre to cope with violence in the children’s lives. While these projects don’t have obvious career Lindsey Hall benefits, the skills learned – for example leadership, has just completed her master’s in Media and Above: Two new posters aimed at encouraging staff and students to volunteer teamwork and creative problem solving – are highly Communications at LSE and now works as an editorial transferable. ‘In terms of volunteering, you always assistant at the Financial Times. Opposite page, top: Livia Ottisova advises a client at Médecins du Monde’s clinic in get as much as you give,’ Livia affirms. And while For further information on student and staff volunteering, Bethnal Green, London volunteering can be great for your CV, it is also see www.lse.ac.uk/collections/volunteerCentre highly rewarding on a personal level. ‘Being part of the community and making a tangible contribution navigators and drivers package and deliver to issues you care about can be really satisfying Yusuf Osman the meals to homes throughout London. – it just enriches the whole student experience.’ usuf Osman graduated from LSE ‘It’s a nice social thing as well. When For those students truly devoted to building with an LLB in Law in 2007. At you’re sitting around chopping a hundred their CVs, the Volunteer Centre has a number of the time of our meeting he was carrots on a Sunday morning, you meet resources that help students translate the skills Y sweating it out through the London summer some interesting people,’ Yusuf explains. and experiences they gained through volunteer- and the heated job hunt. Yusuf first got These include volunteers of all ages and ing into language understood by employers. The volunteering experience in his home town backgrounds – sometimes people studying Centre also recently developed an accreditation of Leicester, and wanted to continue when for nutritionist degrees. What they all have in programme called Learn, Serve and Enjoy, which he came to London. He heard about the common is their commitment; Yusuf wakes helps students reflect on their volunteering in a way Volunteer Centre at his Freshers’ Fayre and up at half past six on Sunday mornings to that allows them to identify what they have gained when he saw the advertisement for Food make sure he’s in by eight. ‘I think there’s and achieved. Student volunteers make a diary Chain, he decided to try something new. a certain kind of person who volunteers,’ of their experiences, which they share periodically he says. ‘It might interfere with your social at meetings with Livia and their supervisors in the Food Chain is a volunteer organisation life, if you want to get drunk on a Saturday volunteer organisation. At the end of the year, with six kitchens around London which night. I see it as a social event in itself.’ students give a presentation about their experience cater to people who are HIV positive. Then, looking slightly embarrassed he and receive an LSE certificate. Many Food Chain patients come from assures me: ‘I don’t see myself as doing Student volunteers often want to work for big, minority communities where HIV is a taboo, a nice thing; it’s purely selfish in a way.’ well-known organisations, which Livia admits can Yusuf explains. They cannot turn to their sometimes be a discouraging experience. The neighbourhoods for support, so Food Chain Volunteers complete a food hygiene course red tape of background checks can take several steps into the breach, helping families with and get a certificate at the end. ‘I learned months to unravel, and once they are accepted, HIV positive members who would otherwise to cook,’ he grins, telling me that his students may not be given much responsibility. have to cope alone. ‘At least once a week, speciality dish is bread and butter pudding. Instead, Livia recommends students consider Food Chain gives these families the chance The menus are not only traditional English, taking part in smaller scale, more straightforward to have a nice meal together,’ he says. however. The team carefully caters to volunteering opportunities, which can lead to the Every Sunday morning Yusuf and the the needs of each family. This means kind of meaningful relationships students wouldn’t kitchen team assemble to prepare the kosher meat, halal meat, African dishes get with huge, impersonal organisations. Thanks menu the lead cook has spent all week and roast dinners all get delivered on a both to Livia’s efforts and those of her predecessors, planning. The kitchen team works through Sunday afternoon. ‘It’s a lot of hard work,’ the Volunteer Centre database currently holds the morning to make around 60 three he says, ‘especially for the lead cook’. about 200 organisations, ranging from micro- course meals. They stop for a communal But he’s quick to add, ‘It’s enjoyable. local to large, international ones. The UK office of breakfast break around 10am, before the That’s why people keep coming back’. Médecins du Monde, for example, has integrated I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 23 Sculpting space ublin born artist Joy Gerrard (pictured completion of the New Academic Building. below) is dwarfed by her sculptural Speakers included Professor Anne-Marie Dwork, Elenchus-Aporia, installed at Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of LSE in October. It is one of two sculptures Public and International Affairs and Professor Niall to commemorate the opening of the New Ferguson of Harvard University. Academic Building. The lecture series will culminate in an ‘LSE LSE has a long tradition of commissioning public Space for Thought’ literary weekend from Friday art, right through from the Frith bas-reliefs on the 27 February to Sunday 1 March in the New Old Building to the Harry Warren Wilson mural on Academic Building. Full programme details are the corner of St Clements. The New Academic available at: www.lse.ac.uk/spaceforthought Building has allowed this tradition to continue. Joy Gerrard’s central sculptural red globe is now hanging in the central atrium. ‘It represents ideas Art in the Verdant Atrium or discussions around political concepts and is Elenchus-Aporia echoed in smaller constellations of glass and steel By Joy Gerrard around the three storey atrium,’ said Joy Gerrard. Art at the exterior northwest corner (not pictured) For the outside of the building, renowned sculptor Square the Block Richard Wilson has designed a spectacular By Richard Wilson RA corner piece called Square the Block. When completed, this will be installed on the corner of These works were made the building at the intersection of Kingsway and possible through gifts from: Sardinia Street. Brian Smith This term both Joy Gerrard and Richard Wilson Mario Francescotti spoke at the LSE Arts Talking Pictures series, Anna and Michael Zaoui organised by LSE’s arts coordinator Richard Desmond Lim Hylton, as part of a vibrant LSE Arts programme. Estate of Desmond Wiltshaw An inaugural lecture series entitled ‘Space for LSE Annual Fund Thought’ also got underway to celebrate the

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New Academic Building

The New Academic Building opened Sirivadhanabhakdi Foundation have its doors for teaching in October. The named the Thai Theatre, a 60-seat building includes four new lecture ‘Harvard style’ lecture theatre. theatres,16 seminar rooms, a central • The collective global support atrium and café as well as five floors of alumni and friends through of academic office accommodation the LSE Annual Fund has made and a roof pavilion. It is now home to a significant contribution to the LSE’s Department of Management, New Academic Building with over Department of Law and the new £1 million allocated to name the Grantham Research Institute on 70-seat Alumni Lecture Theatre. Climate Change and Environment. • The Verdant Atrium forms the Originally built in 1912, the New central nucleus of the building Academic Building was bought by and this was made possible by the London School of Economics alumnus Vincent Cheng (BSc and Political Science in October Economics 1993), who has named 2004. Four years later, and after an investment of £71 million, the the atrium in honour of his mother. building has been transformed into • The Lincoln’s Inn Fields entrance an environmentally friendly, state of will be called the Samuel D Isaly the art home for staff and students. entrance following the generous The New Academic Building has support of alumnus Sam Isaly been supported by alumni, friends, (MSc Economics 1968). trusts and foundations, staff, parents, The building was formally opened corporations and legacy gifts from by The Queen and The Duke of more than 20 countries across Edinburgh on 5 November in front of the world. This support has now over 400 staff, students, alumni and surpassed £10 million, including the donors. During their visit the royal contributions of 65 donors who have visitors listened to a debate on Africa pledged gifts of £10,000 or more and Climate Change, observed law and four donations of over £1 million. students arguing a mock case in the • The Emirates Foundation has moot court, met students and staff generously supported the New from the Department of Management Academic Building with a gift of £2.5 and the Institute on Climate Change million to name the main 400-seat before The Queen unveiled a plaque Paraskevas Law Firm lecture theatre. The theatre will be formally opening the building. Thank you Radwans of Antioc called the Sheikh Zayed Theatre Thank you to the many donors who The London School of Economics Spyros and Vassiliki Karnessis in honour of Sheikh Zayed Bin have supported the New Academic and Political Science gratefully Sultan Al Nahyan, the founder Building at all levels. Your support will acknowledges the support Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou of the United Arab Emirates. ensure that the School can extend of the generous individual, Estate of Audrey Lambert • The Wolfson Foundation has an LSE education to an even greater corporate and foundation £100,000-£249,999 supported the 130 seat traditional number of talented students. donors to the development of David W Heleniak raked Wolfson Theatre and the the New Academic Building. M R Safin £1M+ The Joseph and Lena Emirates Foundation Randall Charitable Trust Vincent Cheng and David A Randall Wolfson Foundation Professor Saw Swee Hock LSE Annual Fund Julian and Susan Green LSE Friends and Family Programme £250,000-£999,999 Sirivadhanabhakdi Foundation £50,000-£99,999 Samuel D Isaly Richard Karl Goeltz Mark E Denning Malcolm Candlish Garfield Weston Foundation Anthony Paduano and Ruth Porat Supporting LSE

Swirski Family New grant for the Human Stiftung Stahlwerk Georgsmarienhuette Rights Futures project Guy Rigden Francesca Klug, professorial research fellow Christos Sclavounis at LSE, has been awarded a further three year An anonymous donor grant of £285,000 from Atlantic Philanthropies and the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust Canadian donors for the Human Rights Futures Project. The C Warren Goldring project seeks to explore and analyse the future direction of human rights in the UK Kenneth B Rotman and elsewhere and monitor and evaluate David A Thompson the Human Rights Act. Professor Klug is the Nesbitt Family director of the project, which is based in the William Morneau Centre for the Study of Global Governance at LSE and works alongside research assistant, Helen Wildbone. Malaysian donors The grant will enable the analysis and deconstruction of human rights Tan Sri Dr Munir A Majid discourse in this country and beyond. The project will seek to influence Normah and Azman Yahya policy on a range of human rights issues in the UK. It will critically assess any proposals for a British Bill of Rights and Responsibilities to evaluate claims that Dato Lee Hau Hian and it builds on the Human Rights Act and does not undercut or rescind from it. Datin Lee Li Li The project will work towards more developed connections between human Carmen Chua rights advocates in the UK, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and LSE Alumni Association improved exchange of expertise, particularly on issues relating to the Human of Malaysia Rights Commissions and the Bill of Rights debates. Persepolis donors Professor Klug, who is also a commissioner on the Equality and Human rights Commission, said: ‘I am delighted that Atlantic Philanthropies and the Joseph Sam Ala Rowntree Charitable Trust will continue to support the Human Rights Futures Alireza Arouzi Project. With the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Michel and Nousheen Danechi this year and the debate about the Human Rights Act and a possible new Bill of Mahmoud Faghihi Rights unfolding, this is a crucial time for human rights research in the UK.’ Hoveyda Family For more about LSE’s work in the field of human rights, see page 7. Mahnaz Kamel Ardavan Farhad Moshiri Mansour and Fariba Namaki and Family Ali and May Rashidian

Ashley and Elizabeth Mitchell Mr Bagher Roohi and Dr Bejan Roohi Naomi Hass Perlman and George Perlman Reza Nader-Sepahi Estate of Charlotte Blank Prince Abdol Hossein An anonymous donor Mirza Farmanfarma Massoumeh Tafreshi Friends and Family Orientation Day £25,000-£49,999 Farman-Farmaian Ralph Oppenheimer Dr Sabbar Farman-Farmaian The annual Friends and Family Orientation Day was held on David Brooks 25 September. Over 300 parents enjoyed a programme which Zahra Jabbareh Farman-Farmaian Nigel P Williams included tours of the School, debates, a lecture by alumnus and Sattareh Farman-Farmaian Hellenic LSE Alumni Association money saving expert Martin Lewis (BSc Government 1994), a chance Farough Farman-Farmaian to meet School representatives including director Howard Davies and Friends of LSE in Hong Kong Aysheh (Homeyra) the opportunity to network with parents of other students. Markit Group Limited Farman-Farmaian Graham Shore The LSE Friends and Family programme was established in 2001 to Dr Ghaffar Farman-Farmaian support LSE and its students and to involve parents in the life of the Virginia and LE Simmons School. The programme improves communication with parents, increases Derek Green and Pamela Soraya Farman-Farmaian outreach, provides opportunities for friends and family of LSE students to (Evison) Green Haroon Rashid Farman-Farmaian be involved with the School and helps to raise funds for the School. Khorshid Farman-Farmaian £10,000-£24,999 The philanthropic contributions of more than 350 parents through the Ardavan and Massoumeh George Davidson Friends and Family Programme have provided more than £100,000 Farmanfarmaian Arne Groes of support for the New Academic Building to name the Friends and Family Programme Study Area. Dr Jakob Horder Paulo and Beatriz For more information see www.lse.ac.uk/annualfund

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Make a match. Make a difference.

Get more for your money when you support the LSE Annual Fund through the Matched Funding Initiative.

The UK government has introduced There has never been a better gifts to the Annual Fund until The Matched Funding Initiative will a Matched Funding Initiative to match time to support the Annual Fund 31 July 2011. This means that mean that the Annual Fund can private donations to universities with at LSE. every £3 you donate to the support more students, scholars, public funds to encourage donors The Annual Fund plays a vital Annual Fund will be matched by and projects all around campus. throughout the world to support UK role in the life of the School. Gifts £1 from the UK Government. Help us reach our goal of doubling higher education. from alumni, governors, parents, Your gift will go that much further our number of donors to the Annual The initiative aims to change staff and friends support projects in making a difference to the life of Fund over the next three years. that ensure LSE remains a world the culture of UK educational the School. All gifts made to the For more information, please class institution and that might not fundraising and through this, LSE Annual Fund are eligible for the visit our website at otherwise receive funding. is looking to increase the number match from the UK government, www.lse.ac.uk/annualfund of donors to the LSE Annual Fund Through the Matched Funding regardless of country of origin. and to support new endowed Initiative, LSE Annual Fund donors It is not about how much you chairs at the School. are eligible for a 3:1 match on give, but how many of you give.

Attracting the world’s best minds The other part of the LSE initiative to respond to the UK government’s matching scheme is to create new endowed chairs at the School. An endowed chair allows the School to attract a top flight professor with a stable source of support that endowment can provide. The potential to match endowed support for chairs means that the School can create significant new posts that might not otherwise exist. Ideally the School would like to have an endowed chair in each department. The Matched Funding Initiative gives us a good start in creating those chairs. We know that the best minds want to come to LSE and we now have the power to make the School even more attractive to them. For more information, please contact the Development Office at [email protected]

28 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I Letters We welcome letters by post or email. Please send correspondence to: Editor, LSE Magazine, Press and Information Office, LSE, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. Email: lsemagazine@ lse.ac.uk. The editor reserves the right to cut and edit letters.

Bill Phillips thumbed through our mental index cards for the proof of this dictum. (In response to reader’s Legacy Futures lunch This was ultimately broken by reminiscences of Bill Phillips, Alumni, friends and staff of LSE Adrian Hall (secretary and director Bill Phillips, who was perching at LSE Magazine summer 2008.) joined together this summer for of administration) (all pictured). the edge of one of those metal My favourite memory of this the annual Legacy Futures lunch. framework and canvas chairs Olive Stone memorial scholar most modest and generous of The event was held in the Shaw which used to be stacked at Chih-Hsing Ho thanked all those men is of one of Professor Lionel Library and gave the School the the door for latecomers, saying attending for their support to (later Lord) Robbins’ Tuesday opportunity to thank the participants quietly: ‘Well, Ralph, if you judge the School: ‘Please allow me to seminars, when the mention of of LSE’s legacy programme and by the amount of noise made express my sincere gratitude to income redistribution caused celebrate the impact of legacy you are right: for those from all of you here. Your commitment the late Ralph Turvey, then the support on the School. whom it is taken scream, while will truly make a difference that will star of the seminar, to straighten Almost £13 million has so far been those to whom it is given purr.’ help so many societies all over the himself up in one of the much pledged and donated to the School world become better ones. Your coveted chintz armchairs in which Ephraim Kleiman (PhD 1958) through the bequests of over kindness has made the legacy that he was lounging and pronounce Don Patinkin Emeritus Professor 100 alumni and friends who have formed this School proud and will joined our Legacy Circle. Guests that ‘it is well known that income of Economics, be fondly remembered by all my redistribution reduces total human The Hebrew University enjoyed lunch in the Shaw Library, fellow scholars at LSE.’ following speeches from scholarship welfare’. A brief silence ensued, of Jerusalem recipients Nicolas Letts and Chih- For more information, see while the rest of us furiously Hsing Ho as well as Legacy Circle www.lse.ac.uk/supportinglse members Derek Diamond (emeritus or contact Laura Harvey at professor of geography) and [email protected] History lessons Halcyon days As an oldie who came up to The letter from Lieselotte Tell (née LSE a mere 60 years ago, I was Kleeman) (LSE Magazine, summer New director of development delighted to see the article about 2008) caught my eye because I Mr Rhys Lewis (Alumni News – also went up to LSE at Cambridge and alumni relations at LSE ‘School’s oldest alumnus’, LSE in 1944. We were a modest group Magazine, summer 2008), but I of some 600, of whom over 70 per completion of the Campaign for was surprised at one comment cent were women; halcyon days! A LSE. She says: ‘I am delighted to be made in it. You see, LSE was handful of us, after graduating, were joining LSE and am looking forward the place where I learned to love employed as research assistants to building on the firm foundation history, having hated it at school. in the School’s economic research division, with an annual salary of work by Mary Blair and her team The article says that the National of £275; pleasant memories. to help the School achieve its long Coal Board paid his fees to attend term philanthropic ambitions.’ Aberystwyth and Swansea before he The magazine has recently contained several early photographs Fiona will take up her appointment came to LSE in 1933. Alas the coal of the School’s location, which have in January 2009 succeeding Mary industry was not nationalised until much interested me. My maternal Blair, who after eight years at LSE the first Attlee government 1945-50, grandfather, Francis Smith, was, is retiring. Mary joined the School which was a real Labour one. at the turn of the last century, a in May 2000 from Johns Hopkins Tell me are you putting a deliberate licensed victualler and landlord of University to lead the successful mistake into each issue? What the Essex Head, a public house at £100 million Campaign for LSE, about a prize for spotting it? the top of Essex Street, just across Fiona Kirk has been appointed one of the largest completed Love to you all, for the best the Strand from LSE. I have a black as the School’s new director of campaigns ever achieved by a UK marble clock, with a silver plaque, development and alumni relations. three years of my life. university. She recently served on a commemorating his tenancy, and Bert Perry (BSc Geography 1951) Fiona joins LSE after five years as government-appointed task force his City of London police truncheon; director of development at Imperial looking into increasing voluntary Petersfield, UK it was my late mother’s birthplace. College and with earlier experience giving to higher education and was Apologies, you are absolutely Edward H Thornton of leading the fundraising chair of the Ross Group in 2007-08. right – the NCB was nationalised (BSc 1946, MSc 1948) functions at both the Science LSE would like to thank Mary warmly in 1946. Rhys Lewis was in fact Liverpool, UK Museum and English Heritage. for all her hard work and dedication sponsored by the local mine. – Ed. The Essex Head was renamed Fiona will be driving forward LSE’s to LSE and to welcome Fiona to the the Edgar Wallace in 1975. – Ed. fundraising activities following the School in her new role. I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 29 LSE news

Students and MPs celebrate ten years of working together

LSE, which provides more student interns for MPs than any other university, celebrated ten years of LSE Student Internships with a reception at the House of Commons in June. The scheme, which has placed more than 250 graduate students with MPs, provides a valuable experience for students and a useful, free, resource for MPs. The reception in Parliament was hosted by Barry Sheerman MP, one of the scheme’s founders and keen supporters, and featured David Willetts MP as guest speaker. Patrick Dunleavy, professor of political science and public policy at LSE, a founder of the scheme, said: ‘Our idea was to give as many LSE students as possible a worthwhile opportunity to experience at first hand what it is like working for an MP in Westminster. At the same time we were keen to provide MPs with a small additional resource that would be helpful for them in carrying out their duties.’ The success of the scheme has led to its expansion over the years into a range of organisations from think tanks, NGOs and charities to research Grantham Research Institute opens groups and public affairs consultancies. LSE Careers Service is now extending internships to meet the demands of students interested in A new powerhouse to generate Its innovative research programme working in the corporate social responsibility field. ideas for action on climate change will include the work at the Centre was switched on by the School in for Climate Change Economics Paul Keetch MP with former LSE intern Faith Armitage October as it launched the Grantham and Policy (chaired by Professor Research Institute on Climate Lord Stern) which has announced Change and the Environment. it is joining forces with Munich Re. LSE also announced a Philanthropists Jeremy and partnership with insurance giant Hannelore Grantham founded the Munich Re, which is investing Grantham Institute at LSE with £3 million in research to learn a donation of £12 million from more about the economic their charitable foundation. The impact of climate change. Economic and Social Research Council is contributing more than The Grantham Research Institute, £5 million – awarded jointly to under the leadership of Lord Stern of LSE and the Brentford, will produce research and – to fund the Centre for Climate analysis on how society, politicians Change Economics and Policy and financiers can hope to respond directed by Professor Judith Rees effectively to a warming world. and Professor Andy Gouldson.

LSE greenest London university for second year running

LSE has maintained its position on the waste management Establishment’s Environment students to perform the key as the greenest university in score. This is due to recording Assessments Method and will roles required to tackle climate London in the People & Planet’s campus recycling figures in house the new LSE Research change.’ Green League 2008. The School, a developing Environmental Centre for Climate Change.’ For information on LSE’s which also came first in 2007, Management System. Aled Fisher, outgoing LSESU environmental activities see: was awarded a 2.1 for its overall Victoria Hands, LSE environmental environment and ethics officer, www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ environmental performance. and sustainability manager said: commented: ‘Getting a first environment No other London universities next year relies on recruiting the achieved higher than a 2.2. ‘LSE is making good progress – the New Academic Building additional staff for whom funding LSE’s results show an has achieved an excellent rating has been agreed and raises improvement from 2007 from the Building Research another clear challenge for higher education institutions in educating

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Centre for the Study of Incentives in Health

London and Queen Mary, University of London with funding from the Wellcome Trust of £800,000 for five years. Economists, psychologists and philosophers will look at what incentives are fair and ethical – a crucial question at a time when governments are increasingly trying to influence our behaviour with money. It is the first time a cross-disciplinary team has been brought together A new Centre for the Study of to study these questions and Incentives in Health has been set the principal investigators will be up to examine what motivates us economist Adam Oliver of LSE to improve our health and how LSE student reaches final Health, Theresa Marteau, professor in national award our behaviour can be affected by of health psychology at King’s rewards and incentives. College and Richard Ashcroft, LSE student Malvika Saraogi was a runner up in the British Council The centre is a collaboration professor of bioethics at Queen International Student Awards 2008, thanks to her inspirational story between LSE, King’s College Mary, University of London. of student life in the UK. The management student, who is from India, won her place in the final after being named International Student of the Year for the London region in the UK. To enter, each student was asked to write a personal ‘letter home’ in English, detailing the out-of-class achievements that help make their time in the UK so rewarding. Now in its sixth year, the national competition honours international students and their contributions to life in the UK. Malvika said: ‘It was an excellent opportunity to meet people from various walks of life and get introduced to so many new opportunities.’

LSE elects five honorary fellows

Five new honorary fellows Monetary Fund and chairman of were elected in 2008 the BIS Asian Consultative Council. Presiley Baxendale Sir Peter Lampl QC, former is chairman and governor and vice- founder of the Sutton chairman of LSE, Trust, which aims is a mediator who to improve social represented the United Kingdom mobility, especially on the EU working group on for young people from poorer Alternative Dispute Resolution. backgrounds. Dame Lynne Robert E Rubin School to train Brindley is chief is chairman of Abu Dhabi government executive of the the executive British Library – the committee for LSE Enterprise has signed a memorandum of understanding with the first woman to hold Citigroup and co-chairman of the Abu Dhabi Department of Planning and Economy (DPE) to provide that position. She was a senior Council on Foreign Relations. executive training and research support for the Abu Dhabi government manager in information technology Honorary fellowships are awarded and business community. The agreement aims to bring the latest and knowledge management each year to people who have thinking in economics to economic planning and policy making in Abu at LSE from 1992-97. attained distinction in the arts, Dhabi. Simon Flemington, chief executive officer of LSE Enterprise Dr Yaga Venugopal science, or public life, or who said: ‘We have a strong track record in providing assistance to national Reddy is governor have rendered outstanding governments which are concentrating their efforts on accelerating of the Reserve Bank services to the School or its economic development. We are delighted to collaborate with DPE in of India, former concerns. These new awards their endeavours to establish executive education programmes and board member of mean that the School now has research initiatives.’ The memorandum was signed by DPE chairman, HE the International over 140 honorary fellows. Nasser Al Suwaidi and the CEO of LSE Enterprise, Simon Flemington. I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 31 China government New International Growth Centre training programme Economists from LSE and Oxford find their own solutions to University have joined forces in an intractable growth problems. LSE was one of four global universities that provided training in public unprecedented £37 million strategy policy for a group of 45 senior Chinese government officials in May. A network of research centres will be to give governments in the world’s established in selected developing Four Singaporean officials also joined the Executive Public poorest nations access to world countries, headed by directors Policy Training Programme, which took place in Beijing. class research on economic growth responsible for engaging in the The course is primarily designed to give Chinese civil servants tailored to their country’s needs. policy process, to ensure that ideas the chance to develop their expertise, management and strategic The International Growth Centre generated achieve maximum impact. outlook in a rapidly changing public policy environment. (IGC) is due to be launched at The two co-directors are LSE’s It included teaching from academic experts of all four LSE on 10 December by Douglas Robin Burgess and Paul Collier from universities – the others are Columbia University, New York, Alexander, secretary of state for Oxford University. The Executive Sciences Po, Paris and Peking University (PKU), Beijing. international development. Its aim Group will also contain Timothy is to engage with governments, Besley (LSE), Stefan Dercon (Oxford) civil society and the private sector and Chang-Tai Hseih (University to create long term, demand of Chicago). Senior advisers are New Chinese network goes online driven research to help societies Philippe Aghion and Nicholas Stern. The China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) has launched a website to give easier access for scholars looking for a professional insight into the study of contemporary China. LSE research project ‘highly CCPN is the only network of its kind in the world, and is aimed at anyone interested in examining China’s modern economic commended’ at THE awards history, politics, international relations, society and culture. The research project How Well Do in the ‘Outstanding Contribution to The website makes it easier to access the CCPN network which brings ‘Facts’ Travel?, led by Professor Leadership Development’ category. together China-related resources for use within and outside LSE. Mary Morgan and sponsored by Pro-director Sarah Worthington SAGE, won ‘Highly Commended’ Dr Xiangqun Chang, coordinator of the CCPN, said: ‘The said: ‘It is rewarding to have such in the Times Higher Education public recognition of these LSE network has great potential. I feel it will become a useful (THE) Research Project of the Year activities, which demonstrate tool in bringing together LSE’s considerable knowledge on category at the 2008 THE Awards. refreshing innovation in research China for the benefit of all scholars and students.’ The Staff Development Unit, led by and its dissemination, and The website, www.lse.ac.uk/ccpn also includes news, events and Chris Connelly, was also shortlisted in staff development.’ a network members’ section. A CCPN forum will be set up soon.

Julia Belluz wins second Library news

Bernard Levin Award • A building project to provide expansion space for the Library’s Julia wrote an original essay split growing collection of archives and into four ‘vignettes’ – the first, a other valuable items was completed conversation about gender based in September. The project inside cultural practices, second, student the Library will create more space pursuit of the Italian ice cream for the collection over the coming gelato, third, an LSE performance 20 years. Some of the work was at the Old Vic Theatre and finally, funded by a generous donation Julia Belluz with last year’s award ideas sprung from a trip to Madrid. from the Wolfson Foundation. • Maps held in the archives at winner Justin Gest The judges said they ‘especially LSE have featured in the BBC2 Julia Belluz, MSc student in social liked the structure, as well as the • The Library is providing 6,000 documentary Britain from Above. anthropology, has won the 2008 way the essay holds the reader’s pamphlets to be digitised as part These maps formed the raw data for Bernard Levin Award, with her essay interest and the writing quality’. of a collaborative project with Sir ’s Land Utilisation ‘London as a Moveable Feast’. other major research libraries in Survey of the 1930s, containing Julia said: ‘Receiving this award the UK, under the theme ‘19th information on land use all over The Award, set up in 2007 to is a great honour. Now living up century pamphlets in support of Britain. The original maps contain celebrate the life of Bernard Levin, to the Levin legacy is the great LSE alumnus and outstanding parliamentary papers’. Pamphlets on valuable detailed descriptions challenge. I think any young journalist, invites LSE students to all aspects of politics and economics of land use. Many of the maps journalist would be pleased with submit a 1,000 word article on the in the 19th century are being sent were coloured by hand by the a career that is a fraction as life around the School campus in to the University of Southampton volunteers, often schoolchildren, rich and colourful as Levin’s.’ central London. The best entry to be scanned. When the project who compiled them and are wins an internship with a media You can read Julia’s winning essay is completed early in 2009 these attractive objects in their own organisation (at The Times for at www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ will be accessible online to right, as well as forming a unique 2007 and 2008) plus £500 and pressAndInformationOffice/PDF/ researchers in higher education primary source for local historians a night at the theatre or opera. LondonasaMoveableFeast.pdf institutions throughout the UK. and historical geographers. 32 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I LSE news

LSE people Eleven people with LSE Emeritus Professor James Professor Lord his paper ‘Union retreat and the connections were named in the Durbin, Department of Statistics, Richard Layard regional economic performance: Queen’s Birthday Honours 2008, was awarded the 2008 Guy Medal (pictured), Centre for the UK experience’. The medal is including governor Bronwyn in Gold from the Royal Statistical Economic Performance, awarded to the best paper in Curtis who was awarded an Society. He was given the award and Professor regional science published by a OBE for services to business for a lifetime of highly influential Stephen Nickell, former professor member of the British and Irish economics, and former LSE contributions which have given of economics at LSE, have won this section of the Regional Science lecturer in social policy him outstanding international year’s IZA Prize in Labor Economics. Association International. Dr Katherine Rake, who recognition as a leader in his field. The award honours their path- Professor Paul Preston, also received an OBE. Professor John breaking work on the relationship European Institute, has been Dr Tania Burchardt and Hills, Department between labour market institutions elected a corresponding member Professor Peter Townsend of Social Policy, and unemployment. of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, were both honoured in the Centre for Analysis Professor Oliver Linton, the Catalan of Arts and recent Social Policy Association of Social Exclusion, Department of Economics, has Social Sciences. awards. Dr Burchardt was given has been appointed to head been elected a Fellow of the Richard Sennett, Department the Best Newcomer Award and the Government’s new study of British Academy in recognition of of Sociology, was awarded the Professor Townsend (alongside inequality in the UK. The National his distinguished study. Professor 2008 Gerda Henkel prize for his former LSE academic Professor Equality Panel will analyse the Linton specialises in econometrics. outstanding achievements in his David Donnison) received the changing gaps in British society Iain Long and Professor Alwyn studies on modern societies. Social Policy Association Lifetime and the complex factors which Young, Department of Economics, Achievement Award during the cause them. Professor Mark shared the Outstanding Teaching Thatcher, Association’s annual conference, Professor Simon Hix, Award for 2008 in the Learning and Department of held in Edinburgh. Department of Government, was Teaching in Economics Awards Government, was Professor Janet awarded the 2007 Richard F which are run by the Economics awarded the 2008 Coleman, Department Fenno Jr Prize for his co-authored Network. In the category for teachers Charles H Levine memorial book of Government, has book Democratic Politics in the nominated by their own students, prize by the International Political been appointed European Parliament (Cambridge Kosuke Aoki and Sanchari Roy Science Association’s Research Hellenic Parliament University Press, April 2007). The were both commended – meaning Committee on the Structure of Global Distinguished Professor prize, from the Legislative Studies that LSE staff took four of the seven Governance for his book in the History and Theory of Section of the American Political prizes on offer. Democracy at New York University. Science Association, is designed Internationalisation and The post is in addition to her chair to honour work that is both Dr Vassilis Monastiriotis, Economic Institutions: comparing at LSE as professor of ancient and theoretically and empirically strong. European Institute, was awarded the the European experiences medieval political thought. Moss Madden Memorial Medal for (Oxford University Press, 2007). Research update Higher pay for graduates A degree from a top university average one in terms of the wages significantly raises earning power, that graduates can command in the from top universities according to research from LSE’s labour market. The report says: ‘This Centre for Economic Performance. implies that even if two graduates A student with a degree from a UK have the same A level grades and university that is in the top quarter family backgrounds and studied of all universities – such as LSE, the same degree subject, they will Oxford or Cambridge – can expect earn different wages if they went to to earn 10 to 16 per cent more different universities. The graduate than a student from a university in from the more prestigious university the lowest quarter. Even degrees would, on average, earn more.’ from universities in the second The authors conclude that ‘there is quarter will lead to wages 5 to some justice in requiring graduates 7 per cent higher than degrees to contribute to the cost of their from one in the bottom quarter. university education and in allowing Iftikhar Hussain, Sandra McNally different universities to charge and Shqiponja Telhaj analysed the different fees.’ salaries of students graduating For more information, download from UK universities in 1985, 1990, the article published in Centrepiece 1995 and 1999. They found ‘a magazine at cep.lse.ac.uk/ significant premium’ to attending pubs/download/cp259.pdf a high quality university over an I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 33 Is there a formula for Is TV losing its hold on the young? happy communities? While researchers found differences in the use of email, SMS, Communities are happier when acquire skills in building relationships instant messaging, and landline the people who live in them are with citizens. phones for staying in touch with given a real say in how to run them, The report represents one of friends and family between the according to a report produced by several strands of work developed two countries, they found no the Wellbeing Project, jointly led by through the Local Wellbeing Project, differences in the level of mobile Professor Lord Richard Layard. a joint initiative by the Young phone use for these purposes. According to Professor Layard, Foundation, the Improvement Dr Sørensen said: ‘There is an wellbeing is created by the influence and Development Agency (IDeA) appetite especially amongst the of family relationships, financial and Professor Layard of LSE’s youth across the two countries to situation, work, community and Centre for Economic Performance. engage, discuss, and communicate. friends, health, personal freedom and Others include work on parenting, This is reflected in over a third of the personal values. The study found that environmental sustainability, Young people ‘consider their children in both countries nominating if people can take an active role in emotional resilience for 11 to 13 mobile phone to be their best the mobile phone as their most their local community and change it, year olds, wellbeing of older people friend’ and would chose it over important possession, while the their wellbeing is improved. However, and guaranteed apprenticeships. all other forms of electrical adult generations were most likely entertainment. So has the post TV in order to give them meaningful Download the report at www.lse. to nominate the TV.’ power, significant barriers need to entertainment age arrived? ac.uk/collectionspressAnd The study, which also looked at be broken between citizens and The latest Mobile Life Report from InformationOffice/PDF/ whether parents can keep up with ‘distant’ decision makers. The study the Carphone Warehouse, advised NeighbourlinessEmpowerment what their children are doing on reoommended that all council staff, by Dr Carsten Sørensen, senior Wellbeing.pdf computers, found that 11 per cent not just community workers, should lecturer in Information Systems at of children aged 11 to 18 have had LSE, explores the relationship adults sexually explicit conversations online, and youngsters have with mobile with 28 per cent admitting they have EU kids online and internet technology. In the latest accessed adult websites. comments online, while stage of a research project begun Download the report at the figure in Germany and in 2006 to investigate the impact of mobile phones on people’s lives, www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ Ireland is closer to one in researchers questioned 6,000 pressAndInformationOffice/PDF/ 10. Other countries in the people in the UK and US. MobileLife2008.pdf highest risk group include Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, Life after death The second group was asked the Estonia, the questions on death and dying after and Norway. the questions on children. Young people in Britain are The number of children that male also among the highest participants in the mortality primed users of the internet – group wanted was ten per cent along with Estonia, the higher than the number of children Netherlands, Norway, that male participants wanted in Denmark, Sweden and the control group, whilst there Belgium. Dr Leslie Haddon, was virtually no effect for female British children are among those one of the report’s authors, said: participants. The researchers most at risk when they are online. ‘Our study has found that greater argue that this difference is driven However British parents tend to be use of the internet results in more Young men contemplating death by differences in reproductive confident their children can cope exposure to risk. It’s not the case, seek to have more children, physiology. A male only needs to with the danger of aggression, as some have assumed, that the according to a study by LSE conceive and then assume the sexual content or invasion of more experienced you are online the researchers. The paper, published mother will provide the necessary investment. For females such instant privacy at the computer. These are more easy you find it to avoid risks.’ in the Journal of Evolutionary Psychology, looks at the link responsiveness is not viable. some of the findings of a report Dr Haddon added that in countries between mortality and fertility by on internet habits across Europe, with a high number of child users ‘The research shows humans testing whether ‘mortality priming’ adapt their response to different which compares experiences from of the internet, children go online – questioning on death and dying – circumstances, as do other 21 countries for the project EU at a younger age. He concluded: results in a marked increased desire animals,’ said lead researcher Paul Kids Online, based at the School. ‘Given that most European studies of for more children. Mathews, an LSE PhD student The report divides countries into internet use have been of teenagers, The study used 872 LSE students and graduate teaching assistant in three bands of low, medium or high we really need more research on the randomly divided into two the Department of Social Policy. risk. Researchers found Britain is experiences of younger children.’ groups. One group was asked Download the paper at in the high category – for instance The full report is available at www. 11 questions on death and www.lse.ac.uk/collections/ more than one in four children in eukidsonline.net in the section ‘EU dying before being asked several pressAndInformationOffice/PDF/ the UK receives unwanted sexual kids online reports’. questions about having children. LifeAfterDeath.pdf 34 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I Alumni news

Message from the Alumni Association chair All LSE alumni are automatically members of the LSE Alumni Association but some are more active than others. There are now more than 80 alumni country groups worldwide and special interest groups focused on the environment, law, media and real estate. This year, we welcome new country groups in Jordan and Serbia and a new special interest group, the Women’s Alumni Network. We have seen resurgent alumni group activity in Australia, Bangladesh, Japan, Kenya, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Taiwan. Why not join an alumni group today?

George Davidson Chair, LSE Alumni Association Houghton Street Online

Houghton Street Online, the LSE online community for alumni and friends, was launched one year ago and now numbers more than 13,000 registrants.

In addition to the latest news from the School and the latest activities Pre-departure event in Karachi of the alumni groups, the website now allows direct access to the Bon voyage LSE Alumni Professional Mentoring Network where LSE alumni can Pre-departure events, jointly organised with the LSE Student Recruitment seek career guidance and advice Office, give new overseas LSE students the opportunity to meet alumni from other LSE alumni. On 5 and hear about their experiences at the School before they make their November, LSE’s New Academic first trip to LSE. Alumni groups held more than 60 pre-departure events Building was officially opened by The this year, a three-fold increase from last year. Nineteen countries from Queen accompanied by The Duke of around the world held their first event – from Indonesia and Japan in Asia, Edinburgh. To view a recording of this to Italy and Georgia in Europe, to Mexico and Bolivia in Latin America. event, visit Houghton Street Online. www.lse.ac.uk/alumni Faculty visits Overseas alumni have regularly expressed their keen interest in meeting LSE academics who are visiting their countries. This past year, faculty have visited alumni groups around the world ranging from Malaysia to Spain, from Dubai to Italy, from Japan to Turkey. Danny Quah, Eileen Barker, Kristian Ulrichsen- Coates and Ian Sinclair have all made multiple visits to alumni groups and many other faculty members have shared their views with alumni groups. Howard Davies has visited Brazil, China, India, Jordan, Mauritius, Russia, Rwanda, Singapore Professor Danny Quah speaking in Madrid and the US in the past year.

I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 35 Alumni news

Reunions

LSE reunions in 2008 director Howard Davies – who was highly informative and a for alumni who left in 1959 or was delighted to announce historical insight in to the ever before, is to be held on Tuesday The Alumni Reunions Programme that the School had literally just changing geography of the city. 12 May, and an ‘80s’ Reunion went from strength to strength taken official possession of the for the Classes of 1984-1987 during 2008, with eight year Both weekends were concluded with groups being invited back to LSE. New Academic Building (see a Cruise and Dinner aboard the MV will take place on Friday 10 More than 350 alumni returned page 26). After the welcome, the Dixie Queen, a replica Mississippi and Saturday 11 July 2009. during the year from a total of 26 evening’s festivities continued paddlesteamer, which took alumni Both reunions are being held at countries, celebrating their 20th, upstairs with a drinks reception from Tower Pier, past Greenwich LSE and further details can be 25th, 40th and 45th anniversaries; and buffet dinner in the Senior and Canary Wharf, towards the found on Houghton Street the Classes of 1982, 1983, 1988 Dining Room, where alumni were 02 Arena (formerly the Millennium Online (www.alumni.lse.ac.uk) and 1989 returned in July, while able to chat and reminisce with Dome) and back, with Tower Bridge – where you can also make the Classes of 1962, 1963, 1968 fellow classmates. The September opening for the boat twice. It was a sure your details are up to date, and 1969 returned in September. event featured live music from spectacular end to a lovely weekend. so that you will receive the LSE’s own rock’n’roll band, The Both events spanned two days reunion brochures and emails. Critique of Pure Rhythm, featuring LSE reunions in 2009 starting on the Friday with tours of the School, allowing alumni academics John Worrall (PhD Another two reunions are planned to see their old haunts and the Philosophy 1975) and Max Steuer. for 2009: the ‘50 Plus’ Reunion, more recent changes on campus. On the Saturday mornings the Following the tours, the alumni alumni took part in very interesting were invited to a ‘Welcome panel discussions in the Old QUERIES AND FURTHER INFORMATION and LSE Update’, given in July Theatre, before a relaxing buffet If you have any queries about LSE Reunions, please contact Nick by Sarah Worthington, deputy lunch in the picturesque Shaw Gilbert, events and reunions manager, via [email protected] or director for external relations, Library. After lunch, many alumni +44 (0)20 7852 3642. and in September by School went on the ‘London walk’ which

36 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I The debate was chaired by Edward Bannerman (BSc IR 1991, MSc Alumni groups PWE 1994), head of the Embassy’s Europe team, and attracted some For full reports from LSE alumni groups around the world, as 120 guests. well as upcoming events, please see Houghton Street Online at On 18 July, the LSE Global Real Estate Group France was www.lse.ac.uk/alumni launched at the Paris offices of Jones Lang LaSalle, attracting ambassador and UK permanent some 30 real estate specialists, Want to join a UK or Alumni events representative to the United including nine LSE alumni. Charles international group? Savary (MSc Regional and Urban AUSTRIA Nations at Vienna, Simon Smith. Please see www.lse.ac.uk/ Planning 2005) has initiated this We would also like to announce alumni and click on groups, The Austrian LSE Alumni group, which expects to meet that two of our founding members, email [email protected], or Association (ALSEAA) welcomed every quarter. write to the Alumni Relations Austria’s federal minister for Hannah Zeibig (BA 1999, MSc Full details of past and forthcoming team, Office of Development science, Johannes Hahn, as Economic History 2001) and events can be found on our and Alumni Relations, LSE, guest speaker on 27 May. The Julius Walker (BSc 2000, MSc website: www.lsefrance.org Houghton Street, London topic was ‘Sustainable Science: International Relations 2001), married WC2A 2AE. are Austria’s universities fit for in September 2008. On behalf of all the future?’, and the event was Austrian LSE alumni we would like to GERMANY co-hosted by the UN Initiative wish them the best of luck for their On 22 May, the German Friends ‘Sustainable Future Campaign’. common future. of LSE joined with the Oxford University Society and the In Praxi We are very grateful to Andreas e.V. WHU Alumni Association for Eustacchio (LLM 1998) for hosting BULGARIA a very interesting panel discussion the event at law firm Eustacchio The third LSE-Oxbridge-Harvard entitled ‘Africa – Europe’s new & Schaar and to Nadja Hahn meeting was held in Sofia on 3 June, challenge’. The speakers were: (MSc European Studies 1997) for with guest speakers Tony Buckby, George Henry Johannes, deputy facilitating the event. Nadja is a director of British Council in Bulgaria head of mission of the Embassy business journalist for the Austrian and Nikolay Vassilev, minister of the of the Republic of South Africa broadcast corporation ORF (and Ministry of State Administration and in Berlin; Hugh Mortimer, the no relation to Mr Hahn!). Administrative Reform. The aim of deputy head of mission of the the meeting was to find out whether In the audience were LSE alumni, British Embassy in Berlin; and Dirk highly educated Bulgarians can easily lawyers, representatives of the Harbecke, the CEO of the African find their place in the labour market Austrian Chamber of Commerce Development Corporation AG. and what the obstacles are. The and other members of the business The discussion was chaired by event was held in association with community. The guest of honour Dr Friedrich Thelen. was Her Britannic Majesty’s the Bulgarian alumni associations of London Business School, College of Then on 31 May and Europe, Central European University 1 June, around 30 members and Columbia University. of the German Friends met in Frankfurt for a weekend FRANCE of activities, including a visit On 1 July, the day that France took to the Commerzbank tower, over the presidency of the European still the highest office tower in Union for six months, the Alumni Europe, and a reception at the and Friends of LSE in France and Pirschke art gallery, owned by the British Embassy jointly organised Ruprecht von Heusinger (MSc a conference on ‘The new economic Econ 1994). Alumni also visited powers: threat or opportunity?’ international business law firm Beiten Burkhardt, where they heard lectures on the economic and political situation in Ukraine by Felix Rackwitz, Beiten Burkhart’s representative in Kiev, and Gerd Bielenberg (MSc Media and Communications 1995), from the economic newspaper Handelsblatt.

ISRAEL Clockwise from top: About 25 LSE alumni living in Israel alumni events in Israel, Austria and Germany gathered in September at the t I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 37 European Studies 1998). We are prestigious surroundings of the also very grateful to Ralph Smith, Lagardère Racing Club of Paris. senior lawyer at the firm, for all his It was a wonderful opportunity for help in making the event such new students to meet current LSE a success. students and alumni, and to hear Danny’s session was preceded by from Annie Shah from the LSE the first Advisory Board meeting Friends and Family Committee. of the Madrid alumni, including members Manuel Martín, Rafael HONG KONG Repullo (president of CEMFE), The Hong Kong event took place Jorge Gil (CEO of American on 4 September, at Solas Bar, Express Spain), Miguel Angel Central, and was a huge success Delgado (head of Economics with over 100 people attending. Department, Carlos III University) The evening included speeches all in attendance. from Hilary Coleman from the LSE Student Recruitment Office and Hermes Li (BSc Economics 2004) Pre-departure from the Friends of LSE in Hong events Kong committee. ITALY Pre-departure events, otherwise The LSE Alumni Group Italy hosted known as Bon Voyage parties, two bon voyage parties. The have been run successfully by first event, in Rome on 9 June, the AFLSE in the USA for many featured guest speaker Professor years, but this year, thanks to Eileen Barker, talking about generous funding from the LSE ‘Research in Social Sciences: the Alumni Association and the case of minority religious groups. Student Recruitment Office, many A week later, Italian group leader more alumni groups worldwide popular beach bar Shalvata in Tel evening of wine and cheese at Andrea Venanzetti (Research were able to get involved by Aviv, to celebrate the upcoming the Hermitage at One Marina Fee 1987) and Rony Hamaui hosting events. Jewish New Year. Boulevard. With eight Italian wines (MSc Economics 1980), the lined up for the night, the evening The events allow alumni and Milan chapter leader, welcomed NEW ZEALAND attracted a host of people, alumni current students to share their prospective LSE students and In July, the Wellington group hosted and friends alike. The wines were experiences of LSE and London some alumni in a wine bar in Milan, with those who are about a reception to coincide with the all very different and before each for a very good evening. to leave for LSE, and often symposium celebrating the New bottle was opened and served, the with their families, and form a NEW ZEALAND Zealand born LSE economist, Bill group was briefed on its history, great introduction to the LSE Phillips. A number of alumni from where it was from and what we The Wellington group held a community. overseas and outside Wellington could expect while drinking it. pre-departure event in August who were attending the symposium Many of those who attended were Over 50 events took place at Parliament to support the two came to the reception, which was newly signed up members and worldwide during July, August and Wellington-based leavers. held in the Reserve Bank Museum. everyone had a tremendous time. September 2008, including: PAKISTAN Attendees were treated to a demonstration by Reserve Bank SPAIN ARGENTINA The Karachi event was generously hosted by Maha Rehman (MSc governor Alan Bollard of one of Bill Professor Danny Quah, head of Around ten new students and Management of NGOs 2004) and Phillips’ surviving MONIAC machines. the LSE Economics Department, 15 alumni came together at the her husband Humair Yusuf on visited Madrid on 25-26 Squash Club of Buenos Aires on 1 September, and it attracted over PERU September and spoke to over 40 27 August. 50 guests, including offer holders, On 10 September, around 25 alumni LSE alumni at a special seminar current students, alumni and the in Lima gathered at one of the finest entitled ‘Is the global economy CHILE British Deputy High Commissioner hotels in Peru, the Lima Country out of control?’ The event was The Santiago event took place at in Karachi. Club. The diverse and successful generously hosted by the top a lively place called Dominga on group of alumni enjoyed the Spanish law firm Gómez-Acebo y 24 September, with drinks and SINGAPORE professional networking, as well as cocktails enjoyed by all, and the Pombo, whose managing partner, Following last year’s well-attended sharing memories of LSE and life in Manuel Martín, is an LSE graduate older alumni enjoying meeting drinks, the LSEAAS held this London. Peruvian alumni have been in law. The president of the firm, the newly arrived graduates and year’s Freshers’ Bon Voyage and meeting in this way since 1984. Fernando Pombo, currently the prospective students. Graduates’ Welcome Back drinks chairman of the International Bar at Harry’s, Boat Quay once again. SINGAPORE Association, introduced Danny FRANCE The event, held on 10 September, Following our AGM in May, the at the session chaired by the The Alumni and Friends of LSE was a great success, with 73 LSEAAS’ new committee kicked president of the LSE Alumni in in France Bon Voyage party took attendees flocking to the venue off their year on 30 July with an Madrid, Adam Austerfield (MSc place on 11 September, in the 38 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I Alumni groups

fantastic Bon Voyage reception at the British Consulate General. On 4 August, more than 64 guests attended, including 30 new students and eight prospective students. In addition to local residents, visitors came from as far away as Connecticut, western Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Opposite page: Clockwise from top: alumni events in New Zealand, Wisconsin, Poland and the UK. Singapore and Peru Attendees admired the splendid view over the Charles River and the Banoffee Pie was a hit! Chicago The Chicago Bon Voyage party was hosted by Kristin Lingren (LLM 2001), chapter chair, at the Fadó Irish Pub on 7 August. The fun event was attended by 40 guests including 20 departing students.

Cleveland Breck Platner (MSc Economic History 1984) and Stuart Friedman (MSc International History 1970), chapter co-chairs, hosted a Bon Voyage party on 27 August. Local alumni met with six new students and their parents at a great venue on Lake Erie.

Denver On 29 July, Bart Alexander (PhD 1975), chapter chair, hosted a This page: Clockwise from top Bon Voyage party at the Tap left: pre-departure events in Hong Kong, Sweden, Minneapolis (USA) Room, an in-house bar located and Miami (USA) at the top of the Molson Coors building in downtown Denver, with for an evening of food, drink and of 21 June, and was a great (AFLSE) was again a great beautiful panoramic views of the good company. success – to quote one of the offer success. Throughout July and Rocky Mountains. LSE alumni and holders, the event ‘reassured us August, 232 new students about guests from the British Consulate SRI LANKA that we could now more or less to study at LSE attended events in General’s staff and the British The Sri Lanka event took place grasp what we would be facing 12 cities across the country: American Business Council shared in the coming year’. on 7 September at the Galle Atlanta their UK and LSE experiences Face Hotel in Colombo, and with four departing students. On 24 August, local alumni and was a great success. TURKEY ten new students attended a Bon Houston The Turkish Friends of LSE were Voyage party at the Five Seasons On 18 August, John Mgbere (PhD SWEDEN delighted to host two pre-departure Brewery in Atlanta, organised by International Relations 1994), The LSE Alumni Association in cocktail receptions to welcome Sheila Tefft (MSc Economic History chapter chair, hosted a Bon Voyage Sweden is very grateful to British those joining the School in 2008, in 1977), chapter chair. Selena party at the Black Labrador Pub. ambassador His Excellency Ankara on 22 June and in Istanbul Jackson (MSc Global Media and Andrew Mitchell for hosting on 3 September. The incoming Attendees, including alumni, four Communications 2003), who the pre-departure event at his students were all in a positive mood, departing students and parents attended the 2007 Bon Voyage magnificent residence. The event providing feedback that LSE had met to discuss life in London party as a new student, returned took place on 17 September, worked hard to reach out to them and the various opportunities with guests also able to tour the in their home towns to take care of to share her wisdom from a and aspects of attending LSE. year at LSE. In addition, each building, which made an excellent them leading up to their departure Los Angeles new student received a copy setting for a much appreciated, for London. The LA Bon Voyage Party took of an LSE memoir written by interesting and fun event. place at Mark’s Restaurant in Samuel Roxburgh (LLB 2002). USA West Hollywood on 21 August. TAIWAN The Annual Bon Voyage Boston Approximately 35 guests attended, The event was held in a historic programme of the Alumni and Anna Sabasteanski (MA 1980), including 20 new students who building in Taipei on the afternoon Friends of the LSE in the USA will study subjects ranging from chapter chair, organised another t I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 39 turmoil, with the club in financial Membership of the Group is now difficulties and losing a team free and open to all alumni. To sign due to player shortages, ended up and receive regular updates in triumph as the Economicals on the Group and its activities brought more silverware to including lectures, networking Houghton Street. Alex Goddard events, student/alumni mentoring (BSc Economics 2005) took opportunities and the annual law over the reins for the Fourths (or dinner, please visit the Group’s Thirds as they became) and led page at Houghton Street Online. them to the brink of the double. Media Group Heartbreak came for the second The Media Group rounded year running in the London Old Boys’ off 2007-08 with a very Cup Final, as the Comics fell to a successful joint event with the last minute defeat to a team fully LSE Department of Media and five divisions above them, but they Communication, held in June would not be denied in the league. to celebrate the completion of Aided by another 20-goal haul the students’ exams. Then in Members of the league-winning Economicals fourth team from Joe Williams (BSc Accounting October 2008, the Group once and Finance 2005), the Comics again collaborated with the the impact of the internet on the 1997), the AFLSE NY Chapter clinched the league title with two Media Society, holding an event music industry to women’s portrayal prospective and new student games to spare, with the winning at LSE entitled ‘Broadsheet vs in new media. They were an coordinator and by representatives goal coming improbably from Broadband: is digital journalism outstanding, social group who will of Lloyds TSB Offshore Limited. Sean Gollogly (BSc Government the new black (and white)?’ make excellent students. Speeches The chapter helped new students and Law 1994), who made a rare with a stellar panel of speakers, were made by outgoing chapter without housing connect with each post-retirement appearance. The including Peter Barron (head chair Emily Burg (MSc History of other by collecting and circulating Seconds also had a successful of communications, Google International Relations 1998) and by their contact information. year, finishing runners-up to gain UK, Ireland and Benelux, and incoming chapter co-chair Elizabeth San Francisco promotion, and with a new team of former editor of Newsnight. Botsford (LLB 1987). Everyone Chapter co-chairs Augi graduates joining this season, the Membership of the Group is had a raucously good time. Paleokrassas (MSc Economic club is again going from strength to free and open to all alumni. History 1991), Mauricio Santana Miami strength. You can keep up to date To sign up, and to find out the (MSc Economics 2004), and On 29 August, two new students with the progress of the Economicals latest, please visit the Group’s Bianca Lansdown (LLM 2005) and their parents joined Alev at www.economicals.co.uk. page at Houghton Street Online organised a Bon Voyage party Ozkan (MSc Operational held at the Windsor Tea Room (www. lse.ac.uk/alumni.). Research 1981), chapter chair, Anyone looking to get involved in in the King George hotel on for a Bon Voyage evening at playing, or just wishing to discuss Midlands Friends 7 August. The evening included Gordon Biersch. Alev spoke sponsorship opportunities (we The Midlands Friends increased small refreshments and lots with the guests about life can dream), please contact Chris their membership last year, and of questions from the 18 new at LSE and in London. Cooper at christopher.a.cooper@ the committee hopes to meet students at the event about morganstanley.com or many of the new members in the housing, classes, professors, Minneapolis on 07802 419090. coming year. Sadly, we have to the British grading system and Five excited and eager new report the death of Sheila Carson, what to expect in London. students, along with parents The Economicals Cricket from , who has been an and local alumni, attended Washington, DC Club also requires players for active member for many years. a Bon Voyage event on Warm thanks to Joy Dunkerley the 2009 season, with games Our most recent meeting was 21 August at The Local, a pub (BSc Econ 1953) who graciously on Saturdays at Berrylands, in downtown Minneapolis. The opened her home to host the Bon and all standards welcome – a trip to LSE in October 2008, students shared expectations Voyage party for yet another year. again, please contact Chris. at which Dr Michael Mason and helpful information and were The event was attended by 72 from the Geography and Lawyers’ Alumni Group happy to make new connections people, including 38 students, Environment Department spoke Lawyers’ Alumni Group has a new before arriving in the UK. 15 alumni and parents and friends. to us on ‘Renewable energy Joy catered the event and guests committee for 2008-09, chaired governance in the Mediterranean New York City enjoyed mingling in the garden. by Gauri Kasbekar-Shah (LLB basin – energy security through The New York Bon Voyage party, Students took the opportunity to 1999) which is planning a number sustainability’. Afterwards held on 7 August, was attended network, meet local alumni and of key events and activities for the we toured the impressive by close to 100 people, including exchange contact information. academic year, aiming to provide New Academic Building, and 75 new students. The Croton better links between the legal had an excellent lunch. Reservoir Tavern was the setting alumni body and the School, the We plan to hold our AGM for 2009 located in mid-town Manhattan. Law Department and its students, Special interest in January or February, with a The event was organised by John as well as fostering greater good speaker, and will be sending Casey (MSc Industrial Relations groups interaction amongst legal alumni. If 1991), chapter co-chair and out details soon. If you would you would like get involved or have speeches were given by Gary Economicals Football Club like to join us, please contact our any suggestions, please contact Klein (PhD International History A 2007-08 season that began in secretary, Margaret Griffiths on the committee via [email protected]. 40 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I Where are they now?

1965 issues. In her current function, as UNICEF’s head of child protection, Jane Guyer (BSc Sociology), a Where are they now? she has overseen a burgeoning professor of anthropology at the field of knowledge and strategy Johns Hopkins University Krieger Wherever possible, we list the details of an individual’s degree(s) for the protection of children School of Arts and Sciences followed by the subject and the year of graduation: eg John Smith from violence and exploitation. (BSc Economic History 1980). House style is to list simply BSc/MSc was elected as a member of the She is an adjunct professor at without the additional Econ. National Academy of Sciences Columbia University’s School of for excellence in scientific Where we have no record of the subject, we list the known department, International and Public Affairs. research, one of the highest and if we do not have this information, we list what we have, eg BSc honours given to a scientist or Econ. Alumni in this section are listed under the year in which they first 1981 engineer in the United States. left LSE, with additional degrees included in their entry. Tim Devlin (BA History) is a barrister in Furnival Chambers, 1966 London. He was recently elected to the Bar Council, and now serves on its Public Affairs and International Affairs committees. 1954 1955 John Martyn (BSc Sociology; PhD Peter Bart (MSc Econ) has been 1983 1982) is currently on the executive awarded the RAAM International William King (LLM) has been committee of the Putney Society, the Management Award in recognition awarded the National Order of local amenity group, whilst continuing of his long and distinguished Merit by the French Government, to pursue an active interest in Lynn McDonald (PhD Sociology) career in film production, as and has just completed his third electoral reform. Last autumn he was given an honorary doctorate an author, and his editorial term as president of the French was involved in organising events at York University, Toronto, in June achievements on the Wall Street American Chamber of Commerce. 2008. The date also marks the commemorating the Putney Debates Journal, New York Times and William is a business development 20th anniversary of the passing of 1647. His paper ‘Political statistics, Variety. Peter is currently vice manager for the US Department of of her landmark ‘Non-smokers’ Devolution and Electoral systems’ president and editor in chief of Trade and Economic Development Health Act’ as a private Member will be published shortly. He is also Variety magazine, which he joined and directs the Aerospace and of Parliament, which made an occasional contributor to Tribune. in 1989. Prior to that he worked Marine Industry Trade Programmes Canada a world leader in the He met his wife Margaret (née at Paramount Pictures for eight in the International Trade and years from 1967, was president of ‘tobacco wars’. Lynn is also Thornton) at LSE. They went on to Economic Development Division Lorimar Films in 1977 and senior director of a project to publish work in market research, including for the State of Washington. vice president of MGM/UA from the Collected Works of Florence running Pulse, a TV audience 1983 to 1985. He has written Nightingale, of which ten of the measurement company where 1984 several books and also hosts a 16 volumes are now published. LSE academics Dr Bill Belson Dr Ing-Wen Tsai (PhD Law) weekly television programme, (Research Methods) and Professor has recently been elected as ‘Sunday Morning Shootout’. 1968 Alan Stuart (Statistics) were leader of the Taiwan Democratic Margaret Owen (Diploma in retained as consultants. Later, Progressive Party where she 1962 Social Administration) is director whilst head of market research has two assistants who also of Widows for Peace through with the Electricity Council, he Ann Richardson (née graduated from the School. She Democracy (WPD), the only started his PhD on electricity Goldschmidt, General Course, was formerly vice premier of PhD Government 1977) has won International Non-Government supply with encouragement Taiwan and prior to that worked a ‘highly commended’ award Organisation to focus on the from Professor Peter Odell. at the Fair Trade Commission, in the medicine category of the status, needs, roles and human He has been a Fulham Labour the Copyright Commission of British Medical Association Book rights of widows in conflict the Ministry of the Interior, and councillor and chairman of Putney Competition 2008, for her latest and post conflict situations. the National Security Council as Social Democrats, and was Liberal book, Life in a Hospice: reflections well as holding many professorial Democrat candidate for Putney on caring for the dying (Radcliffe 1978 in the 1992 General Election. In positions at universities. Publishing, September 2007). Karin Landgren (LLB; LLM 1979) 1997 he campaigned with Bruce Ann is currently a visiting fellow has been appointed as the United Kent and GROT (‘Get Rid of 1987 with the Personal Social Services Nations deputy special representative Tories’), urging tactical voting in James Savage (MSc Politics of Research Unit (PSSRU) at LSE, for Nepal. She previously served Putney in support of the Labour the World Economy) has been and has a long association with with the United Nations refugee candidate, which led to his expulsion appointed vice president of public the School, having been a General agency (UNHCR) in India, Philippines, from the Liberal Democrats. affairs at the Federal Reserve Course student in the early 1960s, Eritrea, Singapore and Bosnia Bank of Cleveland and will be He occasionally attends LSE public worked as a junior researcher for and Herzegovina, as well as an responsible for overseeing the lectures and he and Margaret keep much of the 1970s and completed emergency mission in the Great Lakes region of Africa. Then, as Bank’s communications and in touch with a diminishing number a PhD in 1977. In addition, her UNHCR’s chief of standards and outreach to external audiences. He of old LSE friends. Now, he says, husband Dr Ray Richardson legal advice, she published and most recently served as director he is perhaps best described as an taught at the School from 1968 lectured widely on humanitarian, of corporate communications elderly, relatively mobile, maverick. and was also a deputy director. refugee and child protection at Philips Electronics in Toronto, t I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 41 Rapid resumé

Lance Uggla (left) and Rony Grushka (both MSc Accounting and Finance 1986) met at LSE and are now respectively chief executive officer and chief financial officer of Markit, a leading financial information services company they set up together in 2001. Here, Lance tells his story:

How and when did and finance: Cansberg, Barter, Has what you learned Building, I was immediately you meet? Bromwich, to name a few. In at LSE influenced interested in taking a closer look. addition to great teaching staff, your career? The opportunity for my company, We first met in our Finance the opportunity to meet so Markit Group, to participate with class at the School in October many interesting people around I have always felt fortunate LSE should bring mutual benefits. 1985. After a few weeks, we the world was fantastic. On my with respect to my career and established a study group of course, there were about 40 there were numerous highlights. What are your plans which we were two of six. students from no less than Undoubtedly, setting up my own for the future? 20 countries. company has been a career What led you to study high point. If I hadn’t studied at My plans going forward are to at LSE? What have been the LSE, I wouldn’t have given an continue to build Markit Group. highlights of your career investment banking career a The company has produced My parents were living in so far? second thought. The opportunity double digit growth over the past London from 1984 and I to study at a world class seven years and I expect this to thought it would be great to The most memorable career institution of learning, situated in continue over the coming years. study abroad and have the highlight after LSE was getting the heart of the global financial Markit continues to expand added benefit of a place to my first job. After interviews at markets definitely influences! across the financial interaction stay! Timing is everything. several Canadian investment and services market and leading banks, I found that my new You’ve recently given this growth remains exciting. What do you MSc in Accounting and £100,000 to LSE to remember most Finance was a great addition support student Any advice for LSE about your time at as offers were abundant. scholarships and for students today? a room in the New the School? I chose to take a job on a Academic Building. University study is a great time Mortgage Backed Securities Desk in life, a time to expand your The first thing that comes What motivated you to at Wood Gundy Inc and spent opportunity set, both personally to mind when asked about donate to the School? studying at LSE is the quality the next nine years at what was and for your future career plans. to become CIBC World Markets, Responsibilities will only increase of the teaching staff. I studied I believe that you need to give where I rose to global head of going forward, so be sure to have under some very important back in life and when approached fixed income. fun with fellow students and enjoy professors of accounting to give to the New Academic all that London has to offer.

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Canada, where he was responsible other employee benefits to GCC Court in Nigeria, a court of journey taken in the same path as for public relations, media and companies with global aspirations. Superior record in Nigeria with the Vikings, visiting the Shetland community relations activities. He the status of a High Court. Auwal Islands, Iceland, Newfoundland also served as vice president of completed his PhD under the and Nova Scotia by ship. international public affairs for the supervision of Professor Simon GTE Corporation (now Verizon). Roberts and was formerly an 2006 academic member of staff at the 1988 University of Maiduguri, Nigeria. 1999 Ignacio García-Téllez (MSc Professor Dr Kai-Alexander Schlevogt (BSc Management; Social Policy and Planning) joined MSc Management 1995) has been a research group in Yucatan, appointed as the first professor Mexico for assessing development Walt Dawson (MSc European of management practice at the conditions among Mayan people Politics and Governance) was this National University of Singapore, after graduating from LSE. Since year elected to be a delegate to the Professor Olusola Akinirinade where he specialises in global then he has worked at the Mexican Democratic National Convention (PhD International Relations) has leadership and growth strategies Institute of Social Security for almost from Oregon’s 5th Congressional been appointed as vice-chancellor in emerging markets, especially seven years designing management District for Senator (now president- of Osun State University, Osogbo, Asia. He is a programme agreement schemes to improve elect) Barack Obama. Nigeria. Prior to that he was a director of the Nestlé Global the efficiency of processes in health professor of history, dean of Leadership programme, delivered clinics. In 2008 Ignacio started He is also completing an MSc the Faculty of Arts (2003-07), in association with the London igt-solutions.com.mx, whose in Comparative Social Policy and chairman, Committee of Business School and also writes a mission is to understand the needs at Green College, Oxford, with research focusing on health care Deans (2006-07), at the Obafemi fortnightly column for the Jakarta for integrating the best solutions in reform in the United States and Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Post, the leading English-language areas, processes and structures why comprehensive health reform newspaper in Indonesia, entitled required to achieve economic has failed to take place so far. 1991 ‘Prof Kai on strategic leadership’. efficiency, social responsibility Walt also served as an honorary and organisational coherence. spokesperson for the Alzheimer’s 1996 Association as a youth after his father (MSc Economics) 2002 was diagnosed with the disease. has been appointed secretary of Jubin Goodarzi (PhD International state for the Department of Energy Relations) is currently professor of 2007 and Climate Change, a newly international relations at Webster Jaime Pozuelo-Monfort (MSc created department within the University in Geneva. He has recently Local Economic Development) British Government. Since being published a book about the alliance continued studying at Columbia Yamini Naidu (MSc Personnel elected as MP for Doncaster North between Iran and Syria; tracing University and Georgetown University Management and Industrial in May 2005, he has served first the partnership back to 1979, he after graduating from LSE. He Relations) is director of One as minister for the third sector and analyses the stability and security is currently writing a book to be Thousand & One, a company then as minister for the cabinet of the partnership and assesses published during 2009 entitled The she co-founded in 2005 which office. Previously he was chair of its prospects for the future. Monfort Plan (www.themonfortplan. specialises in helping companies HM Treasury’s Council of Economic com) which describes a forward- increase performance through Advisers, advising the then chancellor looking plan to eliminate extreme organisational storytelling. In of the exchequer, Gordon Brown, 2003 poverty in the developing world. 2007, it was awarded a City of on long–term policy development. Tristan Edmondson (BSc The book will present future trends Melbourne small business expansion Before that, as a special adviser Government) has been selected to and challenges in microfinance, grant. More information at www. to the chancellor of the exchequer participate in the official EU-China microinsurance, a look at the ongoing onethousandandone.com.au. after May 1997, he worked across a Managers Exchange and Training food crisis and the underlying roots Yamini is also Vice President of ElNet range of economic and social policy Programme. The ten month of poverty including small arms (Elearning Network of Australasia) areas, including taxation, public programme, funded by the EU, trade and the HIV epidemic. and does pro bono work with spending, and labour market issues. is open to EU-based companies Streetsmart Australia. She lives and especially SMEs in order to 2008 and works in Melbourne with her 1997 highlight the possibility of training husband Vishnu and nine year old employees to become qualified Isla Milne (MSc Environmental daughter Tara. experts for the Chinese market. Policy and Regulation) will this year be launching a new web-based rental network for individuals, 1994 2004 businesses and charities, www. Daniel O’Riordan (BSc Economic Jennifer Hinkel (MSc therentclub.com is a free service History) is currently principal of International Health Policy) is where those who rent items can Chesterman Consulting based in a health care strategist and collect the income or donate to Hong Kong. The company has entrepreneur as well as a travel affiliated charities. The network recently formed a joint venture Auwal Ibrahim (PhD Law) has writer. Recently she has been is also available to businesses with financial advisory Globaleye recently been sworn in as a reporting and making video diaries free of charge where they can to offer bespoke retirement and judge of the National Industrial for TheTravelEditor.com on her benefit from extra exposure. I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 43 Obituaries

The School is sad to report the deaths of the following alumni and staff. There is now a dedicated alumni tributes page which can be found in the news section at: www.lse.ac.uk/alumni

Akram, Iqbal (BSc Economics kick-start the rebuilding of Aceh Forgan, Ian (DBA 1963). His out research into scientific 1965), accountant. His LSE in Indonesia three years after the coursemate Michael Jefferson methodology under Professor Karl coursemate, C Sarat Chandran, tsunami. Of course she took the writes: ‘When he came to LSE Popper, Rudy initially lectured in writes: ‘Iqbal belonged to a highly job in Afghanistan. Nicole was for the one year Diploma in the University of London extension educated family of diplomats and killed there less than three Business Administration, Ian had scheme, while simultaneously civil servants in Pakistan, and, after months later, shot dead on already joined The Royal Dutch/ gaining experience in market graduating from LSE, qualified 13 August 2008, along with three Shell Group as an international research. After two years as as a chartered accountant other aid workers, in a Taliban marketing trainee, and after LSE managing director of Woodward and cost and management ambush outside of Kabul. She his career with Shell took him to Seeds Ltd, in 1953 he started his accountant. He lived and worked was 31 years old. Nicole was no Ghana, Liberia, Zambia, London, own management consultancy, in several countries including wide-eyed dreamer. She did not Tokyo, Hong Kong and Dubai. contract selling and market Jamaica, Canada, Pakistan and waste time wishing and hoping the Ian’s final jobs, in London, were research businesses. His market Luxembourg and then settled world would be a better place. She managing the careers of young research agency, MIL Research in the UK in 1998. He was a packed her bags and set out to marketers, and – post retirement Group Plc, became the main dedicated alumnus, maintaining make it so. Nicole was cremated – running The Shell Centenary focus of his activity, and went close contacts with most of his in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, and Scholarship Fund, which brought public in 1986, valued at £14.4 LSE friends, and leaves behind her ashes were scattered into the 65 scholars each year for one million. Rudy officially retired, but his wife, three children and a Caribbean. She is survived by year of postgraduate study at continued to be involved in market vast circle of friends in the UK, her mother, father and brother, six of the top British universities research in a number of roles. He the subcontinent and beyond. as well as aunts, uncles, cousins, (though not, for some reason, died in December 2007, aged 82. He died in December 2007.’ and friends in every corner of the LSE). Immediately on leaving Hooson, Professor David Bonner, Beryl (née Levett, world. Both Search for Common LSE, he had married Margaret, (PhD 1955), geographer. David BSc Sociology 1943), teacher. Ground and the International a teacher; in 2003, Ian and Hooson’s distinguished academic Her husband Basil writes: ‘Beryl Rescue Committee have set Margaret were present at the career started with spells at trained as a nurse at Harrow up funds in her memory.’ 40th anniversary reunion of the Glasgow University, the University Hospital, and later taught at Feaver, George Arthur (PhD DBA, and there seemed to be no of Maryland and the University of schools in Harrow, Horsham Government 1962), political clouds on their horizon, with their British Columbia, before he joined and South Cambridgeshire, also scientist. His wife, Catherine, two children well launched on University of California Berkeley fostering a total of 11 children. She writes: ‘George’s early academic interesting careers. But in 2006 in 1966, where he remained until died in November 2007, aged 87.’ career took him to Mount Holyoke Ian was diagnosed with secondary retirement in 1997. Professor cancer in the lung (he had never Clay, Helen (BSc Econ College, LSE, Georgetown Michael Wise writes: ‘David’s University and Emory University, smoked), the origin of which was busy, happy years at LSE studying 1931). After leaving never found, and after a brave and LSE, Nell spent many years of and then in 1971 he returned to historical geography marked a the University of British Columbia, astonishingly protracted battle, turning point in his career. He her working life at the Bank of he died in May 2008, aged 67.’ England. She died peacefully in where he served as professor of was then mastering Russian her nursing home in Sevenoaks political science until his retirement Gobbo, Professor Fabio and preparing to specialise in in June 2008, aged 96. in 2002. His life’s work centred (Research Fee 1975), economist. the studies of the economic and on major English thinkers of the Fabio Gobbo was professor of political geography of the Soviet Dial, Nicole (Diploma in World 19th and 20th centuries, with his industrial economics at LUISS Union which later earned him Politics 2000), aid worker and many published works including University in Rome, a member of international standing. He travelled campaigner. Her LSE coursemate, The Webbs in Asia: the 1911-12 the Lucca Institute for Advanced widely, made many friends, and his Richard Allen Greene, writes: travel diary, by Sidney Webb and Studies, and a former director of books on the Soviet Union were ‘In April 2008, Nicole wrote to a George Feaver. Retirement did not many Italian economic journals. studied and argued about there as fellow LSE alum to say she had slow George down and over the He served as commissioner of well as in the West. More recently just been offered her dream job. last two years he was an Andrew the Italian Competition Authority he had turned his attention to The only negative, she said: it Mellon Fellow at the University of (1990-97) and, until his death, the problems of identifying and was in Afghanistan. Nicole took Texas (Austin), where he happily as member of Romano Prodi’s distinguishing national identities. the job – or as her friends might spent time working on the papers government as undersecretary David came from a well known have said, of course she took the of his LSE mentor and friend, for economic planning. He family from North Wales, visited job. She had gathered testimony Maurice Cranston. He died in May died in Rome in April 2008. Britain regularly, and never lost his from indigenous Guatemalans 2008, on his 71st birthday. He will affection for the School. Long after abused by the country’s military Goldsmith, Rudolph (BCom be greatly missed by his family, 1945, BSc Econ 1947), market his formal retirement he continued junta, campaigned against the use many friends and colleagues.’ to convey his enthusiasm for of child soldiers in Africa, tried to researcher. Having carried 44 I LSE Magazine I Winter 2008 I Obituaries

his subject in teaching part- understanding of both theoretical thesis was a detailed historical way, heavily involved in human time students and he went on and practical aspects of relief aid. analysis of the decriminalisation of rights organisations and a loving with his writing. He was a warm After graduation he published suicide by the 1961 Suicide Act. It husband first to Jane, for 40 hearted, internationally respected, several books based on his was a pleasure to supervise this, years, and later to Barbara. David and greatly loved scholar.’ He travels, and in 1957 was employed as Sheila uncovered a fascinating died in January 2008, aged 76.’ died on 16 May, age 82. by the Oxford Committee for series of nuggets about the politics Shafi, Professor Mohammad Hurwicz, Professor Leonid Famine Relief, the fledgling of the period, especially inside (PhD Geography 1956), (studied for PhD, 1938-39). Oxfam – their first employee with the Conservative Government geographer. Professor Michael Leonid Hurwicz’s PhD at LSE, field experience. The remainder centring on the achievement of Wise writes: ‘A geographer of entitled ‘The Currency Devaluation of his working life was spent RA Butler, then home secretary. international standing, Professor with Special Reference to the with Oxfam travelling abroad to These were skilfully analysed in Shafi, former professor of Experience of the Gold Bloc monitor and assess the priorities relation to the theoretical and geography and vice-chancellor Countries’ was interrupted by the and progress of the welfare, relief historical literature on the making of the Aligarh Muslim University, War, and he moved to the United and development work which (or in this case, unmaking) of India, died in December 2007 States in 1940. He went on to the organisation supported. criminal law. Since her PhD, aged 82. His PhD, under Sir be among the first economists Bernard settled with his wife and Sheila has been involved with the Dudley Stamp, focused on land to recognise the value of game family in Abingdon, where he teaching of the undergraduate use and food production in India, theory and was a pioneer in its died peacefully in June 2008.’ options on sentencing and on and he went on to become application, and in 2007 was Meredeen, Sander (BSc criminology. The Department’s renowned as a brilliant teacher awarded the Nobel Prize in Government 1956, MSc Industrial condolences go out to Sheila’s and stimulator of research and Economic Sciences (see page 16). Relations 1977), silversmith and family: her husband, Lord Moore as the author of many books He died in July 2007, aged 90. author. Sander Meredeen died of Lower Marsh, a distinguished on agriculture and land use. alumnus of LSE and former Lay, Bertram (BSc Stats and in September 2007, aged 79. He received many honours Prior to his death, he completed cabinet minister under Margaret and awards in his own country Maths 1949). Derek Jakes (BSc Thatcher, her three children and six Economic History 1949) writes: a major biography of Sir William and became internationally Emrys Williams, editor in chief grandchildren. She will be missed known through his work as ‘Bert came to LSE after serving by everyone who knew her.’ in the Navy during the war, and of Penguin Books 1936-65, a vice-president and Laureat spending four years as a prisoner which has now been published Owen, Denis (BSc International d’Honneur of the International of war. In 1946, 90 per cent of the in his memory by his sons, Bruce Relations 1954), headteacher. After Geographical Union. A volume of student intake was ex-serviceman, and Clive. The book is entitled army service in education and tributes in his honour has been and the special bond they all The Man Who Made Penguins, and a successful early teaching produced by his university.’ shared was instrumental in the and is published by Darien- career, Denis Owen was appointed Thornes, Professor John, founding of the Economicals Jones Publishing, Stroud. headteacher at Thurnscoe geographer. Professor Michael Soccer Club and the Economicals Moore, Dr Sheila (PhD Law in 1974, Wise writes: ‘Known internationally Cricket Club in the early fifties, 2000). Robert Reiner, professor a post that he held until 1991. for his research on river quality, both of which are successful to of criminology, writes: ‘Sheila, Thurnscoe, a large mining village in soil erosion and desertification this day. Bert and his wife Olga who died in June 2008, aged 67, South Yorkshire, benefited hugely processes, John will be warmly contributed immensely to the was a distinguished alumna of from his dedication to education, remembered by LSE students of early wellbeing of the cricket club, the LSE Law Department and a training and developing the local the period 1966-81 for his vividly with Bert serving as honorary hugely talented and appreciated community. He was awarded the original lectures and inspiring secretary for close on ten years, colleague. I first encountered her OBE for services to education in direction of research students. and Olga serving as match in the mid-1990s when she was 1989 and on retirement remained His work on river quality took scorer. Berrylands, the LSE sports a student on the MSc in Criminal in Thurnscoe with his wife, him on the pioneering Hovercraft ground in South-West London, Justice Policy, in a cohort of Helen. He subsequently worked expedition to the Amazon in 1968; was a hub of social as well as mature students on the course for the local authority for three work on soil erosion in semi-arid sporting activities, with everyone who had become involved in years on raising management areas followed. Later he focused very attached to groundsman academic criminology through standards in education, and on Spain and the Mediterranean Willis Wright, a real character. the Birkbeck Diploma. Like many took a number of roles in the lands, developing strong links Bert died in 2008, aged 89.’ in the group, Sheila was already voluntary sector, including chairing with Spanish colleagues, and active in various types of criminal Voluntary Action Barnsley. He produced new approaches to Llewellyn, Arthur Bernard died in April 2008 aged 75. Edward (BSc Econ 1951), author justice practice, and continued the analysis and measurement of and aid worker. His son, Michael, to be so: she has served as a Rayner, Edward (BSc changes in the physical landscape writes: ‘Throughout his adult life magistrate, a member of the Government 1958), from with suggestions for improved Bernard Llewellyn was involved Parole Board, on the Executive Brighton, died in July 2008. environmental management. to some extent in the tragedy Board of the Inner London Roberts, David (LLB 1954), He left LSE for a distinguished of human affairs throughout the Probation Service, and as a solicitor. Christopher Bolton career which included a chair at world. After the Second World member of Wandsworth Prison (LLB 1952) writes: ‘David and Bedford College, London and, War, he worked on various Independent Monitoring Board. I met in Passfield Hall in 1950, later, chairs at the University post-war refugee relief projects in Sheila passed the master’s with and later both entered the legal of Bristol and King’s College, Europe, India and the Far East, Distinction, and proceeded to do world, with David enjoying a London. But, in his own words, before coming to LSE, aged nearly research for a PhD in the Law distinguished career as a solicitor “the years at LSE were and still 30. His LSE studies together Department, which I co-supervised and Crown Court Recorder. He are the happiest memories”. He with his experience gave him an with Professor Bridget Hutter. Her was a really splendid chap in every I Winter 2008 I LSE Magazine I 45 LSE authors Recent books by LSE academics – more at www.lse.ac.uk

King Hussein of The Nature and Governing the Present: Jordan: a political life Authority of Precedent administering economic, Nigel Ashton Neil Duxbury social and personal life Peter Miller, Nikolas Rose Yale University Press Cambridge University Press 464pp £25 h/b 224pp £60 h/b, £24.99 p/b Polity Press 272pp £50 h/b, £16.99 p/b King Hussein reigned for nearly half a century. The author examines how precedents constrain This fascinating biography recounts the legal decision makers and how legal decision Bringing together Peter Miller and Nikolas Rose’s empirical papers on the government of economic, eventful life of the king who not only survived makers relax and avoid those constraints. This social and personal life, this volume demonstrates but flourished as ruler of a poor desert nation book examines the force and limitations of clearly the importance of analysing these as surrounded by powerful and hostile neighbours. arguments in favour of precedent following. conjoint phenomena rather than separate domains.

Entertainment Britain’s Railway, Another Europe? Industrialised: the 1997-2005: Labour’s After the Third No emergence of the strategic experiment international film Gwyn Prins Terry Gourvish industry, 1890-1940 Lilliput Press Ltd Gerben Bakker Oxford University Press 176pp £9.50 p/b 352pp £30 h/b Cambridge University Press After the French and Dutch decisively rejected 384pp £55 h/b This book, commissioned by the Strategic Rail the Constitution at the polls in 2005, in 2008 Authority and written with access to government an Irish electorate delivered a resounding ‘Third The author investigates the commercialisation files, provides a critical examination of the Blair No’. Calls for the Irish to vote again throw into and industrialisation of live entertainment in governments’ involvement in the rail industry sharp relief fundamental fault lines between the 19th century and analyses the arrival of from 1997 as it attempted to deal with the UK’s diverging visions of Europe’s future. motion pictures, revealing that their emergence fragmented, privatised railways. triggered a process of creative destruction, New Frontiers in Free development and productivity growth. Policing Developing Trade: globalization’s Democracies future and Asia’s SuperMedia: saving rising role Editors: Mercedes journalism so it can Hinton, Tim Newburn Razeen Sally save the world Cato Institute Charlie Beckett Routledge 328pp £85 h/b 154pp $18.95 h/b Wiley-Blackwell The author argues that international trade policy 160pp £42.95 h/b, £14.99 p/b This book gathers together scholars from has become disconnected from 21st century political science, international relations and business and consumer realities. The World This book is a passionate and controversial criminology to focus on the issues raised by Trade Organisation and free trade agreements defence of the social value of journalism. But, it policing within developing democracies. It argues, the news media must be transformed yield diminishing returns while the world’s examines countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, into ‘networked journalism’ that allows the fastest growing economies have embraced freer South America and Africa. public much more power and participation. The trade and global integration unilaterally. author makes a provocative case for a new approach to the ethics and practice of news. The Prisoners’ Dilemma: Outsourcing Global political economy Services: knowledge, Domestic Goddesses: and punishment innovation and maternity, globalization in contemporary social capital democracies and middle-class identity Leslie P Willcocks with in contemporary India Nicola Lacey Ilan Oshri, Julia Kotlarsky Henrike Donner Cambridge University Press Palgrave Macmillan Ashgate 256pp £35 h/b, £12.99 p/b 304pp £30 h/b 192pp £55 h/b The author argues that harsh ‘penal populism’ This book provides a state of the art assessment of Based on extensive fieldwork in Calcutta, is not the inevitable fate of all contemporary trends in global sourcing of information technology this book provides the first ethnography of democracies. Only by understanding the and business services. It includes case studies how middle class women in India understand institutional preconditions for a tolerant and commentaries on best practices and provides and experience economic change through criminal justice system can we think in-depth insights into the practices that lead to transformations of family life. clearly about the options for reform. success in outsourcing global services.

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Alumni books A selection of books published between April and November 2008. For more, and to let us know about books you have coming out, please see the books section at www.lse.ac.uk/alumni

In the Balance of Bikila: Ethiopia’s City Futures: confronting Power: independent barefoot Olympian the crisis of urban black politics and third Tim Judah (BSc development party movements in International History 1984) Edgar Pierterse (PhD the United States Social Policy 2006) Reportage Press, 2008 Omar Ali (BSc Econ 1992) 200pp £12.99 p/b Zed Books, 2008 Ohio University Press, 2008 240pp £16.99 p/b A poignant account of the life of Abebe Bikila, 216pp £28.95 h/b, £14.50 p/b an Ethiopian who became the first black African Looks at the challenges of the ever-growing Details the history of decades of activism to win a gold medal in the Olympics, in Rome in ‘mega-cities’ of the developing world, and among black and white independents (neither 1960. A hero of the African renaissance, Bikila argues that the current ‘shelter for all’ and Democrats nor Republicans). ultimately became a tragic victim of fate. ‘urban good governance’ policies treat only the symptoms, not the causes of the problem. Wine Politics: how Orthodoxy and the governments, Cold War: religion Look Up: the life and environmentalists, and political power in art of Sacha Kolin mobsters, and Romania, 1947-65 Lisa Thaler (General critics influence the Lucian Leustean (PhD Course 1983) wines we drink Political Science 2007) Midmarch Arts Press, 2008 Tyler Colman (MSc Palgrave, 2008 484pp $28 p/b European Politics 1995) 288pp £50 h/b Biography of the Austrian emigre modernist Sacha University of California Explores the dynamics between Orthodoxy and Kolin (1911-81), who navigated the New York art Press, 2008 politics in Romania, providing a narrative on world with talent, charm, and persistence. Kolin’s 208pp $27.50 h/b church-state relations from the establishment of ‘spare and gestural artworks’ were placed all over the state in 1859 to the rise of Ceausescu in 1965. Explains how the bottles of wine that wind up on the world in public and private collections, yet after the shelves and on our tables are shaped her death she was forgotten. by politics, focusing on two of the biggest Remaking Management: producer nations in the world, France and the US. between global and local Get to the Top on Google Brendan McSweeney (PhD Accounting and Finance 1995) David Viney (BSc Econ 1991) The First 30 Days Nicholas Brealey Ariane de Bonvoisin (BSc Econ Cambridge University Press, 2008 Publishing, 2008 International Relations 1992) 486pp £65 h/b 240pp £14.99 p/b HarperOne, 2008 Challenges fashionable claims about the effects 240pp $24.95 h/b of unstoppable globalisation or immovable Introducing a structured, seven-step national cultures/institutions on management methodology for internet marketing and search A guide to any life change, using principles that practices, and reveals a mix of international, engine optimisation; how to get websites to the make change easier and arguing that the first national and organisational-level influences. very top of Google and the other leading search 30 days that follow a change are a pivotal time. engines, and thereby help businesses show a greater increase in visibility, accessibility and The Power and Purpose sales conversion. Fusion for Profit: how of International Law marketing and finance Mary Ellen O’Connell (MSc can work together International Relations 1981) Have a Nice Day: behind to create value the clichés – giving Sharan Jagpal (BSc Econ 1968) Oxford University Press America another chance USA, 2008 Justin Webb (BSc Government Oxford University Press 408pp $49 h/b and History 1983) USA, 2008 664pp $59.95 h/b Explains the purpose of international law and Short Books, 2008 the powers of enforcement it has available to 288pp £14.99 h/b Provides new theory, empirical methods and achieve its mission, arguing that it supports real world examples for integrating business order in the world and the attainment of Anti-Americanism is challenged by the functions, especially marketing and finance, humanity’s fundamental goals of peace, BBC’s man in Washington in this critical but to fuse different functional areas in a firm and prosperity, respect for human rights and sympathetic portrayal of the United States in increase long-run performance. protection of the natural environment. the post-Bush world.

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