London-Asia-Pacific Centre for Social Science Members at SOAS

Professor Costas Lapavitsas

Steering Committee Member

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
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 14:00 to 16:00

Dr Tat Yan Kong

Steering Committee Member, Co-Director

Comparative Political Economy (East Asia): varieties of capitalism; socialist to market transitions; Security on the Korean Peninsula, Development Theory

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4743
Email: yk2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 206
Academic Support Hours: By appointment.

Dr Dafydd Fell

Steering Committee Member

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Tel: 020 7898 4206
Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 209
Academic Support Hours: Wednesdays 11.00 - 1.00PM

Dr Ulrich Volz

Steering Committee Member

International Finance, Open Economy Macroeconomics, Financial Market Development and Stability, Development and Transition Economics, Global Economic Governance, East Asian Financial Markets

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4721
Email: uv1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 285
Academic Support Hours: By appointment

Dr Ramon Pacheco Pardo

Steering Committee Member and Co-Director

Dr. Pacheco Pardo is a Lecturer in the fields of International Relations and International Political Economy.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2209
Email: ramon.pacheco@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Charlotte Goodburn

Steering Committee Member

Dr Charlotte Goodburn completed her PhD in the Department of Land Economy at Cambridge, and holds a BA (in History) and an MPhil (in Contemporary Chinese Studies), also from Cambridge .

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7098
Email: charlotte.goodburn@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Nahee Kang

Steering Committee Member

Dr Kang is an economic sociologist working in the field of political economy of development.

Tel: +44 (0)207 848 7592
Email: nahee.kang@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Andy Sumner

Steering Committee Member

Andy Sumner is a Reader in International Development and Co-Director of King’s International Development Institute, King’s College London.

Tel: +44 20 7848 7158
Email: andrew.sumner@kcl.ac.uk

Production Structures and Capabilities; Learning, Organisations and Innovation; Automation and Robots; Industrial Ecosystems; Linkages, Diversification and Industrial Renewal; Financialisation of manufacturing; Political economy of industrial development; Role of the State; Political settlements and corruption; Structural Economic Dynamics; Global Policy; Industrial Policy.

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4107
Email: aa155@soas.ac.uk
Room: 231
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 13:00 to 15:00 (Term 1)

Dr Michael Buehler

Comparative Politics, Elections and Party Politics, Islam, Local Politics, Southeast Asian Politics, particularly Indonesia

Dr Catherine Chen

Dr. Catherine Chen is a Senior Lecturer in Accounting at King’s College London.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 3888
Email: catherine.chen@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Eunsuk Hong

Foreign Direct Investment, Emerging-Market Multinationals, Applied spatial econometrics, Chinese management/economy

Tel: 0207 898 4564
Email: e.hong@soas.ac.uk
Room: 527
Academic Support Hours: By email appointment

Dr Jan Knoerich

Dr. Jan Knoerich is a Lecturer on the Economy of China at King's College London.

Tel: 020 7848 7843
Email: jan.knoerich@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Yuka Kobayashi

Human Rights, WTO, Environment, with reference to China and East Asia

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4736
Email: yk37@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4425
Academic Support Hours: Tuesdays, 3.00 - 5.00pm

Dr Natasha Kuhrt

Dr. Natasha Kuhrt is an academic at King's College London.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 7275
Email: natasha.kuhrt@kcl.ac.uk

Dr Dic Lo

China and globalisation; industrialisation; Soviet-type economic system and transformation; East Asian economic institutions and development; comparative political economy. China.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4532
Email: dl1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 271
Academic Support Hours: Mondays 14:00 to 16:00 (Term 1)