Department of Economics

Economics Department Staff

Head of Department

Dr Ulrich Volz

Undergraduate Admissions Tutor

Dr Gregor Semieniuk

Graduate Diploma Admissions Tutor

Dr Dic Lo

Taught Masters Degrees (MSC) Admissions Tutor

Professor Jane Harrigan (Term 1) and Massoud Karshenas (Term 2)

Research Degrees (MPHIL/PHD) Admissions Tutor

Professor Ben Fine

Undergraduate Convenors

Dr Ourania Dimakou (BA Economics and two subject)

Dr Ourania Dimakou (Bsc Development Economics)

Dr Ourania Dimakou (BSc Economics)

Postgraduate Convenors

Dr Dic Lo (Graduate Diploma)
Professor Mushtaq Khan (MSC Development Economics)
Dr Matteo Rizzo (MSC Economics with reference to Africa)
Dr Ulrich Volz (MSC Economics with reference to Asia Pacific Region)
Professor Jane Harrigan (Term 1) and Professor Massoud Karshenas (Term 2) (MSC Economics with regard to Middle East)
Dr Satoshi Miyamura (MSC Economics with regard to South Asia)
Professor Costas Lapavitsas (MSC Finance and Development)
Professor Mushtaq Khan (MSC Political Economy of Development)

Professor Costas Lapavitsas and Dr Risa Morimoto (MSC with regard to Environment and Development)

Dr Elisa Van Waeyeberge (MSC Research for International Development)

Dr Ulrich Volz (MSC Economics)

Professor Mushtaq Khan (MSC Global Economic Governance and Policy)

Professor Costas Lapavitsas (MSC International Finance and Development)

Research Tutors

Professor Ben Fine
Dr Elisa van Wayenberge

Antonio Andreoni

Lecturer in Economics

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

Hannah Bargawi

Lecturer in Economics

Aid, Debt and International Financial Institutions; Links between Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty and Inequality; Commodities, Agriculture and Rural Development; Feminist Economics, Gender and Intra-household research; Africa; Middle East

Tel: 020 7898 4496
Email: hb19@soas.ac.uk
Room: 476
Office Hours: Mondays: 11:00 to 13:00
On Sabbatical:Term 2 & 3

Chris Bramall

Professor of Economics

Economic growth, income inequality, famine and agricultural development in modern China, the political economy of Maoism, The development of the contemporary Chinese empire

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4616
Email: cb81@soas.ac.uk
Room: 228
Office Hours: By Appointment Only

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 4515
Email: sd11@soas.ac.uk
Room: 297
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 1pm - 3pm

Ourania Dimakou

Lecturer in Economics

Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interactions, Institutional Economics, Corruption and Central Bank Independence.

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4556
Email: od1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 265
Office Hours: Thursdays: 11:00 to 13:00

Ben Fine

Professor of Economics

Research Tutor

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: +44(0) 20 7898 4527
Email: bf@soas.ac.uk
Room: 278
Office Hours: Thursdays: 12:00 to 13:00

Hassan Hakimian

MBI Al Jaber Reader in Economics with reference to the Middle East

Human Resources; Demography; Trade Policy & Regional Integration; Energy and Natural Resources with reference to the MENA region.

Tel: 020 7898 4475
Email: hh2@soas.ac.uk

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: +44(0) 20 7898 4537
Email: jh66@soas.ac.uk
Room: 281
On Sabbatical:2016/17: Term 2

Deborah Johnston

Reader 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: +44(0) 20 7898 4494
Email: dj3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 106

Massoud Karshenas

Professor of Economics

Middle East economics, Oil and economic development, Global poverty and growth, labour markets and structural adjustment.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4535
Email: mk@soas.ac.uk
Room: 268
Office Hours: Tuesdays 12pm-2pm
On Sabbatical:Term 1

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: mk100@soas.ac.uk
Room: 233
Office Hours: Wenesdays 1pm - 3pm

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: Wednesdays: 14:00 - 16:00

Dic Lo

Reader in Economics

Graduate Diploma in Economics Programme Convenor

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

Satoshi Miyamura

Lecturer in the Economy of Japan

Regions: South & East Asia. Countries: India, Japan. Subjects: Development economics, Labour economics, Institutional economics, Labour-management bargaining; Research methods in economics.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4544
Email: sm97@soas.ac.uk
Room: 275
Office Hours: Tuesdays 1pm - 3pm

Risa Morimoto

Lecturer in Economics

Environmental economics, Development economics, Economics of hydropower development, Energy economics, Transport economics, Economics of sustainable business, Sustainable economic development policy in developing countries, Climate change.

Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4730
Email: rm36@soas.ac.uk
Room: 274
Office Hours: Thursdays 10am-12pm
On Sabbatical:2016/17: Term 1

Ioana Negru

Senior Lecturer in Economics

Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Economics and economic methodology, scientific pluralism, heterodox economics, ethics and economics, Methodology and Philosophy of Austrian economics, Economics of Altruism and Gift, Methodology of Macroeconomics and Ecological and green economics.

Tel: 0207 898 4517
Email: in8@soas.ac.uk
Room: 478
Office Hours: Fridays: 12:00 to 14:00

Duo Qin

Professor of Economics

The history and the methodology of econometrics, applied macro-econometrics with particular reference to transitional and developing economies, international economic/financial issues, social, ethnic and cultural problems associated with economic development

Tel: 0207 898 4624
Email: dq1@soas.ac.uk
Room: 552
Office Hours: Wednesdays: 14:00 to 16:00

Matteo Rizzo

Senior Lecturer in the Economics of Africa

Political economy of development, labour markets and informalisation, agrarian change, urbanisation, privatisation, aid effectiveness, Africa, Tanzania.

Tel: 0207 898 4836
Email: mr3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 272
Office Hours: By Appointment - https://mr3.youcanbook.me/

Gregor Semieniuk

Lecturer in Economics

Growth and distribution; theory of competition; finance and innovation in the energy sector; Bayesian inference

Tel: 020 7898 4219
Email: gs53@soas.ac.uk
Room: 264
Office Hours: by appointment only

Alice Sindzingre

Visiting Lecturer and Research Associate

Industrialisation, international trade, foreign aid, foreign investment, state intervention, poverty traps, Sub-Saharan Africa.

Email: as97@soas.ac.uk
Room: 474
Office Hours: Term 2: Tuesdays from 09:00 to 11:00

Luca Tasciotti

Lecturer in Economics

Development economics, microeconomics, agricultural economics, energy economics, household level analysis, Sub-Saharan Africa, environmental economics, barriers to trade, environmental standards

Tel: 020 7898 4947
Email: lt20@soas.ac.uk
Room: 270
Office Hours: Mondays: 15:00 to 17:00

Jan Toporowski

Professor of Economics and Finance

Macroeconomics, monetary policy, Kalecki and Post-Keynesian Economics, credit cycles, the Franc Zone

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4737
Email: jt29@soas.ac.uk
Room: 277
Office Hours: Thursdays: 11am-1pm
On Sabbatical:2016/17 Term 1

Sophie Van Huellen

Lecturer in Economics

Financial markets, commodity and food prices, commodity futures markets and industries (soft and grain), price risk management, international economics and finance, programme evaluation techniques. Regional interests: Sub-Saharan Africa and West Africa in particular.

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4543
Email: sv8@soas.ac.uk
Room: 280
Office Hours: Mondays: 16:00 to 18:00

Elisa Van Waeyenberge

Lecturer in Economics

Research Tutor

Political economy of aid and policy reform in low-income countries, the international financial institutions; development policy and theory. Teaching interests include macroeconomics and research methods.

Tel: +44(0) 207 898 4284
Email: ew23@soas.ac.uk
Room: 568
Office Hours: Fridays: 11:00 - 13:00

Ulrich Volz

Head of Department

Senior Lecturer in Economics

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

Emeritus Staff

Anne Booth

Emeritus Professor of Economics

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, South East Asia.

Email: ab10@soas.ac.uk

Terence J. Byres

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Email: tb1@soas.ac.uk

Machiko Nissanke

Emeritus Professor of Economics

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 4541
Email: mn2@soas.ac.uk
Room: 474

John Sender

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Emeritus Professor of Economics, SOAS, and Visiting Senior Fellow in Development Studies, University of Cambridge

Graham Smith

Emeritus Professor of Economics

Emerging stock markets, financial futures, the markets for gold and other metals. Time series econometrics.

Email: gs8@soas.ac.uk

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sara Stevano

Postdoctoral Fellow

Political economy of food, agricultural and food systems, labour markets and informalisation, feminist economics and gender analysis, research methodology (especially mixed research methods), Sub-Saharan Africa (in particular Mozambique).

Email: ss129@soas.ac.uk
Room: 281
Office Hours: By Appointment Only

Research Associates

Kate Bayliss

The impact of privatisation and commercialisation; public and private sector systems of provision; infrastructure development; utilities; role of domestic private sector in basic service delivery, equity impact of institutional and infrastructure reform.

Tel: 020 7898 4496
Email: kb6@soas.ac.uk
Room: 476

Ha-Joon Chang

Professorial Research Associate

Marzie Fontana

Research Associate

Bill Lazonick

Professorial Research Associate

John Toye

Professorial Research Associate

Public finance, the political economy of development, international economic institutions and the history of economic thought.

Email: jt38@soas.ac.uk

Juzhong Zhuang

Research Associate

Email: jz2@soas.ac.uk

Senior Teaching Fellows

Randa Alami

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: ra38@soas.ac.uk
On Sabbatical:Academic Year 2016/17

Fusun Erginbilgic

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: fe3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 277
Office Hours: Thursdays by appointment

Eric Golson

Senior Teaching Fellow

Tel: 020 7898 4542
Email: eg23@soas.ac.uk
Room: 282
Office Hours: Tuesdays: 14:00 to 15:00

Ramin Nassehi

Senior Teaching Fellow

Tel: +44(0) 20 7898 4542
Email: rn26@soas.ac.uk
Room: 282
Office Hours: Fridays: 14:00 to 16:00

Omid Rahmani Mazdak

Senior Teaching Fellow

Email: or3@soas.ac.uk
Room: 283
Office Hours: Fridays: 13:00 to 15:00

Teaching Fellows

Esther Arenas Arroyo

Teaching Fellow

Email: ea6@soas.ac.uk

Nadir Cheema

Teaching Fellow, Economics Department, SOAS

Email: nc16@soas.ac.uk
Room: 276

Nemera Mamo

Teaching Fellow

Email: nm76@soas.ac.uk

Aleksandra Peero

Email: ap86@soas.ac.uk

Sanna Piritta Nurmikko-Metsola

Teaching Fellow

Email: sn35@soas.ac.uk

Alma Sharipova

Teaching Fellow

Email: as154@soas.ac.uk

Qingchao Wang

Teaching Fellow

A recheck of interaction between financial theory and Econometric methods

Email: qw2@soas.ac.uk

Graduate Teaching Assistants

Gasim Abdelhadi

Pedro Loureiro

My interests lie broadly in different strands of Marxism, Latin American studies, Economic History, the History of Economic Thought and mixed-methods approaches.

Email: pm_loureiro@soas.ac.uk

Fiorella N. Picchioni

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Email: f_picchioni@soas.ac.uk

Matteo Pinna Pintor

An outmigrant from international studies to development economics, I've long been caught between a deep interest in long-run institutional change and a commitment to rigorous consideration of the analytical problems involved.