Economics Department Staff
Head of Department
Undergraduate Admissions Tutor
Taught Masters Degrees (MSC) Admissions Tutor
Research Degrees (MPHIL/PHD) Admissions Tutor
Postgraduate Convenors
Dr Paulo Dos Santos (Graduate Diploma)
Professor Mushtaq Khan (MSC Development Economics)
Professor Mushtaq Khan (MSC Economics with regard to Africa)
Professor Anne Booth Anne Booth (MSC Economics with regard to Asia Pacific Region)
Professor Massoud Karshenas (MSC Economics with regard to Middle East)
Dr Matthew McCartney (MSC Economics with regard to South Asia) (Term 1)
Professor Mushtaq Khan (MSC Economics with regard to South Asia) (Terms 2 & 3)
Professor Costas Lapavitsas (MSC Finance and Development)
Professor Mushtaq Khan (MSC Political Economy of Development)
Research Tutors
Academic Staff
Jan Toporowski
Reader in Economics
Macroeconomics, monetary policy, Kalecki and Post-Keynesian Economics, credit cycles, the Franc Zone
- Tel: 0207 898 4737
- Email: jt29@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 277
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 11am - 1pm
Ozlem Arpac Arconian
Lecturer in Economics
International finance and development; the effectiveness of IMF and World Bank assisted programmes; political economy of reform in developing countries; discrete choice econometrics. Teaching interests include macroeconomics, development economics, applied econometrics.
- Tel: 0207 898 4283
- Email: oa9@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 281
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 1pm - 3pm
Robert F Ash
Professor of Economics with reference to China and Taiwan
China’s economic development in the 20th and 21st centuries (especially agricultural and rural change, demographic and employment issues, consumption and living standards); evolution of ‘Greater China’; economic development of Taiwan and cross-Strait economic relations
- Tel: 020 7898 4525
- Email: ra2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 267
- Office Hours: By appointment
Stephanie Blankenburg
Lecturer in International Political Economy
Growth theory, economic and institutions, history of economic analysis, development in Latin America.
- Tel: 020 7898 4277
- Email: sb123@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 264
- Office Hours: Mondays 3pm - 5pm
Anne Booth
Professor of Economics with reference to Asia
The role of agriculture in the growth process in Indonesia; poverty measurement, determinants and policy; oil and economic policy; economic history of East and South Asia. Teaching includes Comparative Economic Growth, South East Asia.
- Tel: 020 7898 4526
- Email: ab10@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 266
- Office Hours: Fridays 3.30pm - 5.30pm
Sonali Deraniyagala
Lecturer in Economics
South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: technical change and productivity in manufacturing, industrial policy, the impact of trade liberalisation on manufacturing performance
- Tel: 020 7898 4544
- Email: sd11@soas.ac.uk
Paulo dos Santos
Lecturer in Economics
The political economy of contemporary banking and capital markets. Financial theory. Bank-sector liberalisation in middle-income economies. The political economy and banking systems of the Philippines, Brazil and Mexico.
- Tel: 020 7898 4726
- Email: ps45@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 285
- Office Hours: Mondays 3pm - 5pm
Ourania Dimakou
Senior Teaching Fellow
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions, Institutional Economics, Corruption and Central Bank Independence.
- Tel: 0207 898 4556
- Email: od1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 203
- Office Hours: Mondays 2.30pm - 4.30pm
Graham Dyer
Lecturer in Economics with reference to the Near and Middle East
Economic problems of the Middle East; land productivity and holding size in Egypt; political economy of agrarian change. Teaching includes agriculture, economics of development and Middle East.
- Tel: 020 7898 4545
- Email: gd1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 275
- Office Hours: By appointment only
Ben Fine
Professor of Economics
Southern Africa: the mineral-energy complex in South Africa; the political economy of consumption, particularly food;
privatisation and industrial policy; political economy, history of economic thought and economic theory; economics
imperialism especially social capital.
- Tel: 020 7898 4527
- Email: bf@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 278
- Office Hours: Thursdays 3.15pm - 4.45pm
Ben Groom
Senior Lecturer in Economics
Environmental and resource economics, applied microeconomics and microeconometrics, social discounting and intergenerational equity, applied agricultural and water economics, economics of biodiversity and international environmental agreements
- Tel: 020 7898 4730
- Email: bg3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 274
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 12pm - 2pm
Jane Harrigan
Professor of Economics
International finance for development and the economic reform programmes associated with IMF and World Bank finance to developing countries; the links between macro-economic policy and agricultural performance in sub-Saharan Africa; the gender dimensions of economic liberalisation and globalisation; and the political economy of economic reform in the Middle East and North Africa. Cross-cutting these subject areas are two geographical areas of specialisation, namely sub-Saharan Africa, with a focus on Ghana and Eastern and Southern Africa, and the Middle East and North Africa.
- Tel: 020 7898 4537
- Email: jh66@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 281
- Office Hours: on leave 2009/10
Deborah Johnston
Senior Lecturer in Development Economics
Analysis and measurement of poverty; the working of rural labour markets; agrarian change and rural development; the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS
- Tel: 020 7898 4494
- Email: dj3@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 270
- Office Hours: Wednesdays 11am - 1pm
Massoud Karshenas
Professor of Economics
Middle East: oil and economic development; diffusion of new technologies; labour markets and structural adjustment; intersectoral resource flows, environment
- Tel: 020 7898 4535
- Email: mk@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 268
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 12pm - 2pm
Mushtaq Khan
Professor of Economics
South and South East Asia: institutional economics and political economy; the economics of rent seeking, corruption and patron-client networks; late industrialisation and the state
- Tel: 020 7898 4546
- Email: mk17@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 284
- Office Hours: Fridays 11.00am - 1pm
Costas Lapavitsas
Professor in Economics
Theory of banking and finance; history of economic thought; the Japanese financial system. Teaching interests include banking and finance, the Japanese economy, history of economic thought.
- Tel: 020 7898 4538
- Email: cl5@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 269
- Office Hours: Mondays 2pm - 3pm
Dic Lo
Senior Lecturer in Economics
China and globalisation; industrialisation; Soviet-type economic system and transformation; East Asian economic institutions and development; comparative political economy. China.
- Tel: 020 7898 4532
- Email: dl1@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 271
- Office Hours: Mondays 11am - 12pm & 2.00 - 3.30pm
Matthew Mccartney
Lecturer in Economics with reference to South Asia
Economic development and political economy of post-Independence South Asia. The state in late industrialisation. Macro-dynamics and industrialisation in India.
- Tel: 020 7898 4646
- Email: mm80@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 265
- Office Hours: Tuesdays 2pm - 4pm
Satoshi Miyamura
Japan Foundation Lecturer in the Economy of Japan
Regions: South & East Asia Countries: India, Japan Subjects: Development Economics, Labour Economics, Labour-management bargaining, Mathematical economics, Statistics, Econometrics, Research methods in Economics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4544
- Email: sm97@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4425
- Office Hours: Mondays 11am - 1pm
Machiko Nissanke
Professor of Economics
North-South Economic relations, adjustment and development, finance and development, international trade and finance, and comparative economics policy studies in Asia and Africa. Teaching interests include open economy macroeconomics, international trade and finance and financial economics. Africa and Asia.
- Tel: 020 7898 4542
- Email: mn2@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 282
- Office Hours: Mondays 4.30pm - 6.30pm
Andre Noor
Computing and Statistical Officer and Teaching Fellow
The teaching of computing tools for quantitative methods.
- Tel: 020 7898 4556
- Email: an@soas.ac.uk
Graham Smith
Reader in Economics
Emerging stock markets; financial futures; martingales; factors affecting efficiency; empirical finance, time series econometrics.
- Tel: 020 7898 4543
- Email: gs8@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 280
- Office Hours: Fridays 8.15am - 10.30am
Hiroshi Tohyama
Visiting Professor of Finance and the Japanese Economy Bank of Japan
Money and Banking (Central Banking, Monetary Policy), the Japanese Economy.
- Tel: 0207 898 4548
- Email: ht15@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 283
- Office Hours: Mondays 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Elisa Van Waeyenberge
Lecturer in Economics
Political economy of aid and policy reform in low-income countries, the World Bank, development policy and theory. Teaching interests include macroeconomics and research methods.
- Tel: 0207 898 4284
- Email: ew23@soas.ac.uk
- Room: 4425
- Office Hours: Thursdays 2pm - 4pm
Alice Sindzingre
Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate
- Email: as97@soas.ac.uk
- Office Hours: Term 2: Tuesdays 3pm - 5pm
