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

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
Office Hours: Wednesdays: 14:00 - 16:00

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
Office Hours: Term 1: Thursdays 1 - 3
On Sabbatical:Term 2 2016/17

Dafydd Fell

Steering Committee Member

Contemporary Taiwanese Politics: Elections, Parties, Democratization

Tel: 020 7898 4206
Email: df2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 209
Office Hours: Wednesdays 2- 4

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
Office Hours: By appointment

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

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

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

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

Industrial economics; Global and local production systems; Learning and technological change; Structural economic dynamics; Institutional change; Labour and sustainability; Industrial finance; Political economy of manufacturing development; Political settlements and corruption; Industrial policy; Global governance and policy.

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4107
Email: aa155@soas.ac.uk
Room: 231
Office Hours: By Appointment Only

Michael Buehler

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

Email: mb107@soas.ac.uk
Room: 4412

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

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
Office Hours: By Appointment

Angela Huyue Zhang

Dr. Angela Huyue Zhang is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London.

Tel: +44) 020 7848 1712
Email: angela.zhang@kcl.ac.uk

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

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
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1pm - 3pm, Terms 1 & 2

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

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
Office Hours: By Appointment Only

Maleiha Malik

Professor Maleiha Malik is a Professor in Law in King's College London.

Email: maleiha.malik@kcl.ac.uk

Naho Mirumachi

Dr. Naho Mirumachi is a Lecturer at King's College London.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 2865
Email: naho.mirumachi@kcl.ac.uk

Alessio Patalano

Dr. Alessio Patalano is Senior Lecturer in War Studies at King's College London.

Tel: 020 7848 2397
Email: alessio.patalano@kcl.ac.uk

Kristin Surak

International migration, political sociology, nationalism, culture, state and society in Japan, qualitative methods.

Tel: +44 (0) 20-7898-4749
Email: kristin.surak@soas.ac.uk
Room: 262
Office Hours: Tuesdays 3pm - 5pm

Damian Tobin

Hong Kong's financial system; Renminbi internationalisation and banking reform; Economic modernisation and the State; China's management reforms, especially in the oil sector

Tel: 020 7898 4058
Email: dt29@soas.ac.uk
Room: 555
Office Hours: Monday 2 - 4