Faculty

Dr Hakim Adi (PhD SOAS) is Reader in the History of Africa and the African Diaspora at the University of Chichester. He is the author of West Africans in Britain 1900-60: Nationalism, Pan-Africanism and Communism (Lawrence and Wishart, 1998) and (with M. Sherwood) The 1945 Manchester Pan-African Congress Revisited (New Beacon, 1995) and Pan-African History: Political Figures from Africa and the Diaspora since 1787 (Routledge, 2003). He has written widely on the history of Pan-Africanism and the African Diaspora, including three history books for children. He is currently working on a film documentary on the West African Students’ Union www.wasuproject.org.uk. His forthcoming book Pan-Africanism and Communism: The Communist International, Africa and the Diaspora,1919-1939 will be published by Africa World Press in 2013.

John did an undergraduate degree in Mathematics at Emmanuel College Cambridge and then a MSc and PhD in Management Science at Imperial College, London. He then joined the faculty at Imperial College, working in the Management School (latterly the Tanaka Business School) for over 25 years. 

Dr. Jane Beckett teaches contemporary British art at NYU in London, on other programs at London University; at the University of East Anglia where she was Senior Lecturer in Art History. She completed her PhD at the Courtauld Institute of Art on Dutch twentieth-century art and color theory and is completing a book on the cultural history of Amsterdam. She has published extensively on European and British modern and contemporary art, photography and film, most recently Henry Moore (2003) and in Difference and Excess (2004), written the catalogue on Art and Film (2005) for the British Film Institute and acted as a curator for exhibitions in the UK and the USA. 

Neil Bingham, BA (Hons), PhD FSA, is an author, historian and curator. He specialises in the history of architectural representation, British architecture and post-war modern design. His undergraduate degree was taken at the University of Winnipeg (1977) in his native Canada, where he still maintains a home and a lake-side cottage. His holds a PhD (1985) from the University of London on aspects of Victorian and Edwardian architecture and town planning. For nearly twenty years he was an architectural curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects drawings collection, London and then served as curator of the Melnikov House Museum, Moscow. Presently, he is consultant curator, Royal Academy of Arts, London. His books includeMasterworks: Architecture at the Royal Academy (2010); Wright to Gehry: Drawings from the Collection of Barbara Pine (2005); The New Boutique: Fashion and Design (2005); Fantasy Architecture (2004); Modern Retro: Living with Mid-Century Modern Style (2000); Christopher Nicholson (1996) and C.A.Busby: Architect of Regency Brighton and Hove (1991). Forthcoming is100 Years of Architectural Drawing (2012). He lives in a Span house designed by Eric Lyons in Blackheath, South London. 

Described by The Times as “a polymath”, Clive Bloom is Emeritus Professor of English and American Studies at Middlesex University, best-selling author and publisher. In 2011, Clive was the historical consultant to the BBC and a number of national and international newspapers on the G20 and the summer riots in Britain. He is an occasional feature writer for The Financial Times, The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, The Irish Times and the London Evening Standard, regularly appearing on television and radio and quoted in the Washington Post and Pravda. Clive also has an entry in the Columbia Book of World Quotations. His numerous books include Riot City, Victoria’s Madmen, Gothic Histories, Restless Revolutionaries, Violent London, Bestsellers, Cult Fiction and many more, all of which have enjoyed international recognition

www.clivebloom.com

Monica Bohm-Duchen (MA Courtauld Institute) is an independent lecturer, writer & exhibition curator, who has lectured on a part-time basis at NYU-London since 2007. She also teaches for Birkbeck College, University of London. The other institutions for which she has worked include Tate, the National Gallery, the Royal Academy of Arts, Sotheby's Institute of Art and the Courtauld Institute; the journals to which she has contributed include RA Magazine, Art Monthly and Modern Painters. She curated After Auschwitz: Responses to the Holocaust in Contemporary Art (1995) and co-curated Art in Exile in Great Britain 1933-1945(1986), and Life? or Theatre? The Work of Charlotte Salomon (1998). Her many publications include Understanding Modern Art (1991),Chagall (1998), The Private Life of a Masterpiece (2001) and The Art and Life of Josef Herman (2009). She is currently working on a book on art and the Second World War, to be published by Lund Humphries in association with Princeton University Press.

Keith Bothwell is a senior lecturer at Kent School of Architecture, an architect with over 30 years experience and an ecological consultant. He developed his interest in environment and sustainability while a student at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, visiting pioneering autonomous houses and working as a volunteer at the fledgling Centre for Alternative Technology in Wales. In 1996 he completed an MSc in Bio-Climatic Architectural Design, undertaking research for the Building Research Establishment on the pedagogy of sustainable design.

Keith’s research interests focus on the passive environmental design of buildings, and he has recently worked on enterprise projects to retrofit existing buildings to meet very low carbon standards. His research has been published in Canterbury School of Architecture Review, the Proceedings of the Florence International Conference for Teachers in Architecture, and he has just completed a chapter for the forthcoming book: Aesthetics of Sustainable Architecture. 

Dorota Bourne works as a lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. Her expertise includes change management, international knowledge transfer, innovation and management development. In her past projects she worked in Total Quality Management in car manufacture, change management in the pharmaceutical sector, competency framework designand new business model development for the not-for-profit organizations.

Peter Cave read philosophy at University College London and King's College Cambridge. His philosophy lectureships over the years include University College London, University of Khartoum, Sudan, and City University London. He has been attached for many years to The Open University, UK. He has given guest lectures at universities in Sweden, Denmark, The Netherlands as well as Romania and Italy.

Peter is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, sits on the Council of the Royal Institute of Philosophy and chairs the Humanist Philosophers of Great Britain. He has scripted and presented BBC radio philosophy programmes – some too clever by one eighth – and often takes part in public debates.

He has published academic papers on paradoxes in the usual philosophy journals and has written many lighter pieces for philosophy magazines. His philosophy books include Can a Robot Be Human? What’s Wrong with Eating People? and Do Llamas Fall in Love? – as well as This Sentence Is False: an introduction to philosophical paradoxes. His most recent article is ‘Burqas and Bikinis: Morality and Muddles’ in a small collection edited by Alan Haworth, Right to Object?

Peter lives in Soho, London, enjoys opera (well, he thinks he knows what he likes), even delights in religious music, despite his atheism, and is often found with a glass of wine – or two…

Dr Mary Conde holds degrees in English literature, the politics of rights and social anthropology from the Universities of Oxford and London. She is Senior Research Fellow in English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her most recent article (2012) was on Catherine Bush and Jean McNeil, her most recent guest lecture (2012) was at the University of Siena, and her most recent conference paper (2011), on Rudyard Kipling, was delivered at the University of Angers.

Dr Richard Coulton joined NYU in London in 2009 as an instructor on the Writing cycle on the Liberal Studies Program. He teaches writing and research skills at Queen Mary, University of London, as well as courses in English Literature. Dr Coulton’s research is principally concerned with the literature and culture of the eighteenth century, and is particularly interested in sites and networks of knowledge and sociability in eighteenth-century London. He has recently published on science and satire in the eighteenth century, as well as on European discourses of the natural history of tea in the early-modern period. Current research includes a collaborative project on book-theft in eighteenth-century London, as well further work on the Anglo-Chinese tea-trade.

Dr. Andrew Crozier was educated at Queen Mary College, University of London, and The London School of Economics, where he completed his Ph.D. He was Lecturer in Modern European History at the University College of North Wales for 20 years when he returned to the University of London to teach Modern German History at Queen Mary and Westfield College. He also has an interest in the History of the European Union and in this respect was appointed Jean Monnet Chairholder in the History of Contemporary Europe. In this capacity he was on several occasions Visiting Professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. He has published widely on the relationship between the European Union and the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and has written a pioneering study of the history of the latter organization. His principal publications are Appeasement and Germany’s Last Bid for Colonies and The Causes of the Second World War, a pioneering study of the origins of the Second World War in both Europe and the Pacific. He is currently completing a biography of Neville Chamberlain and writing a study of post-war Europe.

Emily Crump studied history at University College London and creative writing (MA, prose fiction) at the University of East Anglia. She has held positions lecturing in writing with, amongst others, the University of Cambridge and the Open University. From the academic year 2012/13, she will be taking up a post at City University.Emily is an award-winning writer, who has seen her work published in various UK journals and collections, including Aesthetica, Mslexia, The Times and the UEA anthology Otherwheres. She is a visiting writer for Circle of Missé and was a recent judge for their 2012 Writing Competition. This year, she and NYU writing tutor Emma Claire Sweeney presented a paper at the annual conference of the National Association of Writers in Education. Emily is represented as an author by the literary agency United Agents. To find out more about Emily’s writing and teaching work, visit www.emilymidorikawa.com

I am a cognitive psychologist, and my main research interest is human visual selective attention. I use a range of selective attention paradigms to investigate to what extent the attention system of the human brain is capable of selective processing of to-be-attended information. I am specifically interested in the control of selective attention by frontal areas of the human brain, which I investigate using behavioural measures, functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) and Electro-encephalography (EEG). After studying at the University of Amsterdam and King’s College London, I received my PhD from the University of Essex, and was then a postdoctoral research fellow at University College London. Since 2002, I am a lecturer in psychology at Goldsmiths, University of London. 

Edward Diestelkamp, Building Design Adviser to the National Trust, London, 2002-present; Assistant to the Director of Historic Buildings of The National Trust, London, 1986-2002; Historic Buildings Representativeof The National Trust, North Wales, 1984-1986;  Architectural Assistant with the Louis de Soissons partnership, London, 1973-1976; PhD in Art History, University College London, 1983; BSc in Architecture, University of Southern California, 1973. 

Michael Douglas-Scott has lectured in the History of Art at Birbeck College, University of London, since obtaining his PhD there in 1996. His special field of interest is Venetian renaissance painting, a subject on which he has published articles and essays both in the United Kingdom and in Italy. He also teaches American undergraduates at Birkbeck College about British art and architecture c. 1600 - c. 1850 

Phillip Drummond studied at Saint John’s College, University of Oxford as an undergraduate and postgraduate student. He held an Open Scholarship in Modern Studies (English and French), won prizes for English at College and University levels, and founded the university’s largest arts society, the 2,000-member New Cinema Club of Oxford. He went on to become one of the pioneers of UK Film and Media Studies in the 1970s whilst teaching at Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University) and chairing major initiatives at regional, national and international levels. He joined the Institute of Education, University of London, in 1979 to found the University of London’s first MA degree in Film and Television Studies – and only the country’s second – which he went on to run for nearly two decades. Since 2000 he has been active in US Film, Media and Cultural Studies in London, teaching as an Adjunct for NYUL, the USC Annenberg School, the University of California, and the University of North Carolina and acting as the local Academic Advisor, on behalf of ACCENT International, on the creation of the University of California London Programme. He is also the Director of Academic Conferences London Ltd, a new micro-company which has been responsible since 2011 for pioneering annual international conferences on London, Britain, and global Film and Media under the overall rubric THE LONDON SYMPOSIUM. See www.thelondonfilmandmediaconference.com, www.thelondonconference.com, and www.understandingbritain.com for further information.

Ben East studied English at the University of Bristol, Creative Writing at Birkbeck College, and EFL/EAP teaching at International House, London. He has taught English in Spain (Valladolid and Castellò de la Plana), Australia (Adelaide and Perth) and various UK further and higher institutions. Most recently he has taught EAP courses at Coventry University and the University of Hertfordshire. Ben is also Academic Director of an annual summer school residential programme, run in conjunction with the Liceo Scientifico Carlo Livi, Prato, Italy. 

David Edelshain is Senior Lecturer in International Business at Cass Business School, City University, London. He graduated with a BA in Economics from Cambridge University in 1967 and was awarded an MBA from London Business School in 1969. He worked as a Financial Analyst and then Corporate Planner at Pye Telecom from 1969 to 1971 before becoming a director of a company in the retail ceramics and jewellery businesses in 1971. He completed a law degree and was called to the English bar in the 1970s. In 1977, Wedgwood Ltd acquired this business, and, he remained with the organisation until 1980 when he joined a private training and education company. He qualified as a management accountant in 1981. From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a management consultant in an accounting firm and in 1984 joined HM Treasury as a principal first in the Overseas Finance Division and then in the Central Computer & Telecommunications Agency. From 1986 to 1988 he worked in the executive education arm of Tel Aviv Business School in Israel before returning to London Business School in 1988 to work on his doctorate. In 1993 he became a full-time faculty member of City University Business School after teaching there part-time from 1989. From 1995 to 1998 he directed the Executive MBA Programme, then the General & Strategic Management and International Business streams of the Full-time MBA. He is currently Director of the Masters in European Business degree programme. He is married with a son and two daughters and lives in Mill Hill. He supports cricket as a member of the MCC and soccer as a lifelong Arsenal supporter. He was first invited to teach at NYU in London in Spring term 2001 and here has taught courses in Corporate Finance, Financial Management, International Financial Management and Managerial Accounting,

Miranda El-Rayess completed her doctorate at University College London. Her main research interests are nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature and culture. She has published articles on Henry James, and her book, Henry James and the Culture of Consumption (Cambridge UP) will appear shortly. Currently Miranda is co-editing a volume of James's short stories for the forthcoming Cambridge Edition of the Complete Fiction of Henry James. She teaches at Goldsmiths and reviews for the Times Literary Supplement.

Adam Fagan is a Political Scientist who has written extensively on civil society development in post-communist states. He is the author of Europe’s Balkan Dilemma: Paths to Civil Society or State-Building (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic (Elgar, 2004) as well as numerous scholarly articles on aspects of democratic transition in the Czech Republic and more recently Bosnia-Herzegovina. His recent articles include ‘Taking stock of civil society development in post-communist Europe: evidence from the Czech Republic'. Democratization 12(5) (Autumn 2005) and ‘Neither North nor South: Environmental Issues and Civil Society in Post-conflict Bosnia’ Environmental Politics, 15(4), 2006. Dr Fagan is Reader in Politics at Queen Mary, University of London, and Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Innovation, Knowledge and Development Research Centre, the Open University, UK. His research has been funded by the Nuffield Foundation and the British Academy. 

Dr Nicholas Falk, BA (Oxon), MBA (Stanford), PhD (London) is an economist, strategic planner and urbanist. He founded The Urban and Economic Development Group, Ltd. (URBED) in 1976 to offer practical solutions to urban regeneration and local economic development. Over the last five years he has focused on new communities, the future of the suburbs, visions for historic town centres, and the reuse of old buildings. He has a particular interest in drawing lessons from European good practice. He is co-author of the Sustainable Urban Neighbourhood: Building the 21st Century Home (Architectural Press, 2009). Other recent publications include theRegeneration of European Cities, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation;  The Cambridgeshire Quality Charter for Growth for Cambridgeshire Horizons;  and Beyond Eco-Towns with PRP and Design for Homes. 

He has been involved in a number of major new housing schemes, including the new town of Northstowe in Cambridge, the urban extension of Houghton Regis North in Bedfordshire, and an urban village in the centre of Yeovil. He has been appointed a Visiting Professor at the School of the Built Environment, University of the West of England, and also an Academician of the Academy of Urbanism. He is an active member of the Urban Design Group and the Town and Country Planning Association. Much of his research has focused on the reuse of buildings, including a report on Re-using Redundant Buildings (HMSO), and advising English Heritage and others on the transfer of heritage assets to community groups; these make use of involvement in a number of pioneering adaptive reuse projects. Research reports on the suburbs include City of Villages and the follow up good practice toolkit, Tomorrow's Suburbs, for the Greater London Authority, as well as Attitudes to Higher Density Housing and Neighbourhood Revival: Towards More Sustainable Suburbs in the South East, for the South East England Regional Assembly.  He has also published numerous articles in journals and chapters in books dealing with regeneration, and has edited Built Environment's special edition ‘Towards Sustainable Suburbs’. 

David Feldman is Professor of History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Englishmen and Jews: Social Relations and Political Culture 1840-1914 (Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1994) and coeditor of Paths of Integration: Migrants in Western Europe 1880-2004 (Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, 2006). He is currently completing a book called The Rights of Strangers: Migrants, Immigrants and Welfare in England from 1600 to the present. Together with colleagues in Paris he is writing a comparative study of migration policies in  Britian, France and Italy in the inter-war period. 

Moira Ferguson was born in Glasgow and received her B.A. from Birkbeck College, University of London, and her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Washington, Seattle. She taught in the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for many years where she was also the Founding Chair of Women's Studies. Her publications include Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery 1670-1834 (Routledge) and Gender and Colonial Relations from Mary Wollstonecraft to Jamaica Kincaid (Columbia U.P.). In 2012, A Human Necklace: Slavery and Its Aftermath in Paule Marshall's Fiction is due to appear.

James Fox studied Philosophy at Leeds University (BA Hons), Design and Technology at Sheffield Hallam University (PGDip), Design Education at Sheffield Hallam Univeristy (PGCE), and Landscape Architecture at Sheffield University (DipLA). He has worked as a furniture designer-maker, teacher, and Landscape Architect. James began his career as a Landscape Architect with Jinny Blom and then Todd Longstaffe-Gowan landscape design, where is now the Associate Director. With Jinny Blom he was Project Landscape Architect for the 2006 Chelsea Flower Show Laurent Perrier Garden (Gold) and for the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre interior landscape (BALI award). He has worked with Todd Longstaffe-Gowan since 2006 and has been Project Landscape Architect for Selfridges Hotel; Selfridges Shoe Galleries; Marylebone Garden of Rest (RIBA Award); The Artists House, Kensington (Stephen Lauwrence Prize); Boudouris Mansion, Greece; Hampton Court Palace Trophy Gate, Barge Walk, Chapel Court, Clore Studio Courtyard; and Kensington Palace East Garden, Cradle walk. 

My research interests lie at the intersection of several disciplines and literatures, including historical sociology, human geography, post-structuralism and postcolonial theory. I use these frameworks to explore a number of related issues pertinent to the study of international relations and politics:

Post-colonial state formation in sub-Saharan Africa; The relationships between international organisations and global/international civil society groups; The politics of knowledge and knowledge maintenance in the area of International Development; The political economy of democratic transition and state-civil society relations in sub-Saharan Africa, with a particular focus on Malawi

In 2012 I published a book on the second of these interests, interrogating the power relations which construct a significant alter-globalisationist actor, the Global Call to Action against Poverty (www.whiteband.org), in order to understand its impact, actual and potential, on discourses and actors in IR.

My other research interests are reflected in papers I have published and ongoing research projects, including a genealogical study of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and their socio-cutural-spatial embodiments; a project exploring the discursive relationship between the MDGs and civil society organisations in East Africa; and a project exploring the nature of sovereignty and statehood in contemporary Africa.

David Ganz was Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel  Hill from 1980-1997 and then Professor of Palaeography at King’s College London.  He has published books and articles on early medieval manuscripts and intellectual history, and most recently he translated and introduced  Einhard and Notker the Stammerer Two Lives of Charlemagne(Penguin Classics 2008). 

Emily Gee has worked at English Heritage for 12 years and is Head of Designation, advising the government on the listing of buildings and other historic assets. The course will inevitably focus on buildings and sites that have special interest worthy of designation (statutory protection or ‘listing’) and we will consider conservation and preservation issues on our travels together. Emily studied in the US (Smith College, BA; University of Virginia, MA Architectural History), was teaching assistant for architectural history courses at UVA, and has a Diploma in Building Conservation from the Architectural Association in London. She has published several articles on the history of purpose-built housing for working women in Victorian and Edwardian London and leads English Heritage’s activity on twentieth century architecture. Emily has taught at NYU in London since Spring 2011.

Professor Georgellis is a Research Professor in HR&OB and Director of CRESS (Center for Research in Employment, Skills and Society). He is a Distinguished Associate of the International Atlantic Economic Society (IAES) and ranked in the 5th percentile in the REPEC rankings. He has published widely in the areas of behavioral economics, personnel economics, and human resource management. His recent publications include articles in the Journal of Vocational Behavior, Economic Journal, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, British Journal of Management, Psychological Science, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Economica, and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. His work is highly cited and it has attracted media coverage.

Tony Greener has worked in management, PR, communications and marketing since 1972 having been a board director of  Land Rover, BL Cars Europe, Dunlop Slazenger International, the Saudi Arabian National Guard Medical Service and Saatchi & Saatchi where he was Deputy Managing Director of the UK PR agency. 

He and his wife formed their own management training, marketing and communications business, Positive Images, in 1988 and they have since worked for a wide variety of clients in the UK and overseas.

Clients include BT, the Corporation of London, Nestle, Abbey National, Tower Bridge, Taylor Woodrow, Royal Bank of Scotland, the English Tourist Council, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, a number of health services and local government bodies and the Institutes of Management in both Singapore and Malaysia. He is a Senior Lecturer at Brighton University Business School and a lecturer at New York University in London.

Tony is the author of The Secrets of Successful PR, published by Butterworth Heinemann in 1990, Internal Communications published by Blackhall in 2000 and Introduction to Business Management published by ICSA in 2008. 

Eve Grubin’s book of poems, Morning Prayer, was published by the Sheep Meadow Press. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in many literary journals and magazines including PN Review, Poetry Review, Poetry International, The American Poetry Review, The New Republic, and Conjunctions, which featured her chapbook-size group of poems with an introduction by Fanny Howe. Her essays have appeared in various magazines and anthologies including, The Veil: Women Writers on Its History Lore and Politics (University of California Press, 2009) and Jean Valentine: This-World Company (U of Mich Press, 2012). She received her BA in English Literature from Smith College, her MA from Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf School of English, and an MFA in poetry from Sarah Lawrence College. A former Yaddo fellow, Eve was the Programs Director at the Poetry Society of America for five years and has taught at The New School University and in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at The City College of New York. She is the Poet in Residence at the London School of Jewish Studies, and she is a poetry tutor at The Poetry School.

During a 30-year career with the BBC World Service radio, double award-winning journalist Teresa Guerreiro worked on all aspects of news production, as a writer, broadcaster, news/current affaris editor and documentary/feature maker. She also played a prominent role in training younger colleagues at the BBC. Originally from Portugal, she was London correspondent for the main Portuguese weekend newspaper, Expresso, in the 1980s and 1990s. She holds an MA in English Studies from the Classic University in Lisbon.

Rong Guo is a lecturer in the Chinese language at NYU in London. Rong also teaches on a aprt-time basis at Imperial College London, University of Westminster and London Metropolitan University where she is the co-ordinator for Chinese courses.

Stephen Hannah studied economics at Sussex and University College, London. Following a lectureship at the University of Keele - publishing research on macroeconomic theory and labour markets - Stephen joined HM Treasury during the turbulent 1980s to advise the UK Chancellor on monetary and exchange rate policy. He then moved to the City of London, in the wake of the UK financial sector's "Big Bang", enjoying a long career as Chief Economist and independent consultant, advising on financial market strategy to a wide variety of clients.

Stephen has now returned to the academic sector and, as well as teaching the NYUL Intermediate Macroeconomics course, he is currently teaching Global Economics to MBA students in London on a joint Anglia Ruskin-LCA programme. 

Dr Brian Hanson has been writing about architecture and design for nearly 40 years. His Architects and the ‘Building World’ from Chambers to Ruskin: constructing authority (Cambridge University Press, 2003, 2011) was nominated as a Book of the Year by The Architects’ Journal, saying it “goes right to the front of the pack” and “should lead to the revision of our understanding of later 19th-century architecture”. He has teaching experience in 10 countries, and for over 20 years advised HRH The Prince of Wales on architectural and urban matters.

Nigar Hashimzade is Professor of Economics at Durham University. Her previous academic posts at the University of Reading and University of Exeter. She earned her PhD in Economics from Cornell University in 2003. Her research articles in economic theory and in econometric theory have been published in leading international journals. She regularly presents at the major international conferences, including the annual meetings of the American Economics Association, the annual conferences of the Royal Economic Society, and the annual meetings of the Econometric Society. Professor Hashimzade is one of the co-authors of the Oxford Dictionary of Economics.

Michael Hattaway is Professor Emeritus of English Literature in the University of Sheffield. He was born in New Zealand and studied in Wellington and at Cambridge. He also taught at the Universities of Wellington, Kent at Canterbury, British Columbia, and Massachusetts at Amherst. Author of Elizabethan Popular Theatre (1982), Hamlet: The Critics Debate (1987), and Renaissance and Reformations: An Introduction to Early Modern English Literature (2005); editor of As You Like It, and 1-3 Henry VI (New Cambridge Shakespeare), of plays by Ben Jonson and Francis Beaumont, and of The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s History Plays (2002), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama (1990 and 2003) and Shakespeare in the New Europe (1994). He has written an electronic book on King Richard II (2008) and edited a NewCompanion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture (2 vols, 2010). In 2010 he gave the 100th Annual Shakespeare Lecture for the British Academy.

Richard Hill studied architecture at Cambridge University and has worked as a manager of construction projects in both the public and private sectors. He has taught widely in universities in Britain, the United States and Italy, and is the author of Designs and Their Consequences: Architecture and Aesthetics (Yale University Press, 1999). He is now an associate in Richard Griffiths Architects, one of Britain's foremost practices specialising in the conservation and re-use of historic buildings. He has played a key role in major regeneration projects at St Pancras and Kings Cross, London, and has prepared numerous conservation plans for historic buildings and their settings. 

Konrad Hirschler studied History and Islamic Studies in Hamburg, Bir-Zeit (Palestinian Territories) and London where he also completed his PhD. After fours years at the University of Kiel (Germany) he joined the History Department of the School of Oriental and African Studies in 2007 and is currently Senior Lecturer. His research focuses on Egypt and Syria in the medieval period with a special interest in social history, intellectual history and the Crusades. He is the author of Medieval Arabic Historiography: Authors as Actors (RoutledgeCurzon, 2006) and The Written Word in the the Medieval Arabic Lands (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) as well as editor of collected volumes such as Manuscript Notes as Documentary Sources (Ergon, 2011). He has worked as academic consultant for media programs on topics such as the Crusades.

Dr Stephen Inwood was born in 1947, and was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, and St Antony’s College, Oxford, where he gained a D.Phil (Ph.D) in Modern History. He was a university lecturer in history for about thirty years, and then became an almost full-time writer, continuing to teach only at NYU in London. The four books he published (all with Macmillan) in those years are A History of London; The Man Who Knew Too Much (a biography of Robert Hooke); City of Cities (a study of London between 1883 and 1914); and Historic London: an Explorer’s Companion. He assisted Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London, with his book, Johnson’s Life of London, and he was praised by the Mayor as the best historian of London. He is married to a head teacher, and has three sons.

Dolores Iorizzo has a joint appointment at Imperial College London in the Centre for the History of Science and the Department of Computing. She is Co-editor of Newton's Theological Manuscripts at the Newton Project and and is also Head of Unit for Arts, Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the London e-Science Centre (www.lesc.imperial.ac.uk). Projects include creating open-source multimedia electronic editions in the history of science, philosophy and history, and cross-repository semantic interoperability for e-research in the humantities and sciences.  Her current project is 'Origins of the Calculus: Cultures of Science in Leibniz and Newton'. 

As well as teaching at NYU in London, Nesta is Director of Research at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, an affiliate of the University of Manchester, UK. Formerly, she was Reader in Theatre Arts and Head of Drama for many years at Goldsmiths University of London. She has published on JM Synge, Sean O’Casey and David Mamet (all Methuen) and Brian Friel (Faber & Faber), and acting and production processes in a number of theatre journals; organized projects for and with the British Council, the National Museum for the Performing Arts, Trinity College Dublin, the Council of Europe Cultural Networks, the European Commission, the European Cultural Foundation, Arts Council England, the Royal National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, and London Weekend Television; has been a consultant/adviser to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Wales, University of Surrey, Leeds Metropolitan University, the British Centre of the International Theatre Institute, International Women Playwrights, the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, the Pan Centre for Intercultural Arts, the Centre for Performance Research, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and University of the Arts London; and given papers at international conferences, directed theatre productions of English classics and revivals of modern European plays, and conducted acting, directing and playwriting workshops, at venues across Europe (east and west) and North America. Moreover, she has researched in the USA (mainly Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York) and was a Visiting Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont and Visiting Director for the Potomac Theatre Project. She is currently a Contributing Editor of New Theatre Quarterly (Cambridge University Press) and the Artistic Director of NXT (New Cross Theatre), a company committed to promoting new writing for theatre. 

Professor Denis Judd is a graduate of Magdalen College, Oxford, a PhD of London University, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Professor Emeritus of History at London Metropolitan University. He has published over 25 books including the biographies of Joseph Chamberlain, Prince Philip, George VI and Alison Uttley, historical and military subjects, stories for children and two novels. Some of his most recent books are the highly praised and best selling Empire: The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present, The Boer War and The Lion and the Tiger; the rise and fall of the British Raj. He has reviewed and written extensively in the national and international press, and in journals, has written several programs for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service, and is an advisor to the BBC History Magazine. He is often interviewed for national and international television and radio and his most recent book is his edited edition of the Diaries of Alison Uttley (2009). His books Empire:The British Imperial Experience from 1765 to the Present, The Boer War and his biography of George VI have recently been reissued in revised paperback editions.

www.denisjudd.com 

Dr Kelly lectures on British Politics and works as a policy adviser in Westminster. He received his PhD from the London School of Economics in 2000 and subsequently published his thesis under the title ‘The Myth of Mr. Butskell’. He has been published in academic journals and lectured at both British and American Universities. He has also advised political parties in Eastern European and Africa about policy development. 

Dr. Kirkham completed undergraduate degrees in english literature and psychology at the University of Toronto and went on to obtain a PhD in psychology from Cornell University in 2003. She worked as an assistant professor in the department of psychology at Stanford University until 2007 and currently works at the Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development, Birkbeck College, University of London. 

Yulia Kovas received her Ph.D. in 2007 from the SGDP Centre, Institute of Psychiatry. Her thesis in Generalist Genes and Mathematics explored the origins of the individual differences in school mathematics. She received a degree in Literature and Linguistics as well as teaching qualifications from the University of St Petersburg, Russia in 1996 and taught children of all ages for 6 years. She received a B.Sc in Psychology from Birkbeck College, University of London in 2003 and MSc in Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry from the SGDP Centre, King's College. This eclectic - interdisciplinary and international - education background has ultimately led to the formation of the InLab, conducting international, interdisciplinary research into the individual differences in learning, with paticular focus on numerical ability and other STEM fields. Dr Kovas is a Reader at Goldsmiths College and a visiting lecturer at Birkbeck, UCL, and King's as well as New York Universities.  Dr Kovas is also leading the genetically-sensitive mathematics research in the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) ad the SGDP Centre, King's College. For further information on research and publications visit:

http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/psychology/staff/kovas.php

 www.inlab.co.uk

Leya Landau’s main research interests lie in the field of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writing and culture, and in the relationship between literature and the city. She has published articles on Romanticism and London, eighteenth-century opera and women poets of the period. She is currently writing a book on the female urban imagination in eighteenth-century literature. She has taught at both American and British universities, and most recently at University College London. 

Harkness Fellow, University of Washington 1967-68. Berwick Prize, London Math Soc 1973. Invited Speaker, International Congress of Mathematicians, Helsinki 1978. Professor of Mathematics, University College London, 1975 – present, Dean 1981-1984, Head of Department. 1991-2006. Renyi Prize, Hungarian Academy of Science 1988. Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Science, Austrian Academy of Science 2006. Vice President, London Math Society (U.K.’s National Organization for Mathematics) 2006-present. Has published over one-hundred research articles in learned journals. Many invited lectures including NYU (Courant Institue) in 2007. 

Kate taught psychology at Royal Holloway (formerly Bedford College) for over thirty years, and has also taught in the University of Wales at Bangor, the City University, and Kings College London. Her research has focused on mental health in minority groups in the UK. She is interested in how religious factors can affect mental health. She has been involved in providing and evaluating culture-sensitive mental health services, and is involved in mental health charity and other community work. She has published several books (the last to appear was Religion, Culture and Mental Health: Cambridge) and numerous articles, and edits the journal Mental Health, Religion and Culture. 

Recent invited plenary lectures include lectures to the British Sociological Association (Manchester, 2006), the Templeton-Cambridge Journalism Fellowship Programme (Cambridge, 2006), the City and East London Primary Care Trust, (London, 2008), the World Federation for Mental Health (Athens, 2009), the Royal College of Psychiatrists (London, 2009), the All North Wales Psychiatry Conference, St Asaph, 2010), the Sinai Scholars Conference, (Dartmouth College, 2010 and Philadelphia University, 2011), the Ethnic Health Initiative (London, 2012), and the South London and Maudsley Trust (London 2012). 

Todd Longstaffe-Gowan is a landscape architect and historian, who takes on a range of projects in Britain and abroad, many with a conservation slant. ‘My work reflects my interest in the dramatic and sculptural potential of landscape, and is imbued with whimsical, historical eclecticism', he says. 'I like to think that my gardens are intelligent as well as beautiful, as they are informed by my training as an architect, landscape architect, geographer and historian’. Current projects range from the creation of a new garden within the old walls of a fortified house on the island of Hydra in Greece to the preparation of a conservation strategy for the gardens at Kensington Palace. Todd is President of the London Parks and Gardens Trust and Gardens Adviser to Hampton Court Palace. He is also the author of several books including The Gardens at Hampton Court Palace (Frances Lincoln) and The London Town Garden (Yale University Press).  He holds a Bachelors in Environmental Studies (BES) from the University of Manitoba; a Masters of Landscape Architecture (MLA) from Harvard University; and a PhD in Historical Geography from University College London. 

David Margolies taught in a number of British and American universities before settling into the English Department of Goldsmiths College, University of London, from which he is now retired Emeritus Professor, where he offered courses in Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare's theatre and popular culture. He is widely published internationally on Shakespeare, Elizabethan prose fiction and the development of Marxist criticism in the 1930s. His latest book is Shakespeare's Irrational Endings, published by Palgrave

John Mark M.A.(Hons) Cantab. M.Sc in Economics (London) is Senior Lecturer in Economics at King’s College, University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society. His major publications include the 800 page volume on The Food Industries, Reviews of the Statistical Sources of the United Kingdom Vol XXVIII, Chapman and Hall, London, further work on statistical sources and recent papers on the semi-conductor industry. He read history at St. Catharine’s College Cambridge and did his postgraduate studies in economics at University College London and the London School of Economics. 

Matthew Mauger, BA (Warwick), MA (Queensland), PhD (London), researches extensively in the literature of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries; in particular, he focuses on how Enlightenment legal debate forms an important context for artistic production in the period. He completed a PhD entitled 'Prophetic Legislation: William Blake and the Visionary Poetry of the Law' in 2005, and has published an article about legal architecture in Blake's 1790s epic The Four Zoas. He has recently completed an article examining harassment of dissenters in the City of London in the mid-eighteenth century, and continues to work on the writing of legal theorists including William Blackstone, Joseph Priestley, and Jeremy Bentham. 

I was initially interested in economics and finance. I had first a master degree in econometrics from La Sorbonne and a finance degree from the IEP in Paris. After six years as a risk analyst for a future and commodities broker at the city in London, I decided to change my career. I wanted to teach and I had a real love for philosophy. I did my PhD in philosophy at the London School of Economics and I have been teaching there ever since I graduated. My fields of reasearch are primarily moral and political philosophy as well as philosophy of economics. 

Loukas Mistelis is a member of the Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) where he is Director of the School of International Arbitration and the Clive M Schmitthoff Professor of Transnational Commercial Law and Arbitration. He is also co-ordinating the specialisations in International Commercial Law, Arbitration and Tax. He teaches at the LLM programme and is the co-ordinator of the courses in International and Comparative Commercial Arbitration and International Trade and Investment Dispute Settlement and also teaches on the International Commercial Law, International Commercial Litigation and ADR courses. Loukas Mistelis has also developed directs our Diploma in International Arbitration by Distance Learning, the Diploma in International Mediation (ADR) by Distance Learning and the Diploma in International Arbitration, which is offered by CCLS with accreditation from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Loukas was the Secretary of the CISG-AC (Advisory Council of the Convention on Contract for the International Sale of Goods) from 2001 to the end of 2007 and co-ordinator of the Queen Mary Case Translation Programme, part of the CISG Database (IALL Website Award 2002). He also co-directs the International Arbitration Case Law Project.

He studied law at Athens (LLB) Strasbourg (Certificate in International & Comparative Human Rights); Hanover (Magister Legum Europae and Dr. iuris) and Keio (Certificate in Japanese International Trade Law). He is a Member of the Athens Bar (since 1993). Besides English he is fluent in German and Greek, has good knowledge of French, and basic knowledge of Polish, Spanish and Russian. He has also participated in a number of experts groups, including for the UK Department of Trade and Industry, the International Chamber of Commerce, UNCITRAL and UNCTAD. He is also Visiting Professor, NYU in London (since 2006), Pepperdine University London programme (2008-2011); was a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University Law School (spring semester 2007), Visiting Fellow at NYU Law School (2012), Visiting Professor at Keio University, Tokyo (2008), LUISS, Rome (2009) and Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon (2007 and 2009). He is also an Academic Member of the Investment Treaty Forum, British Institute of International and Comparative Law and of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration.

Loukas Mistelis is an acknowledged authority on international dispute resolution. He has been listed as one of the “leading lights in international arbitration”, 45 under 45, amongst the top 15 highlighted members of the list and is also listed on the Who’s Who Commercial Arbitration since 2007. His substantial arbitration experience covers ICC, ICSID, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SCC, Swiss Chambers and Moscow cases. Parties in these cases were from Bangladesh, Egypt, Switzerland, France, Germany, Malaysia, India, Lithuania, Russia, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Canada, Nigeria, Ireland, Moldova, Ukraine, Korea, Czech Republic, Greece, France, Argentina, Turkey, Spain, UK, UAE and the United States. Subject matters included foreign direct investment, sales contracts, distribution agreements, counter-trade, mining, share purchase agreements, media contracts, administration of natural resources, oil and gas transactions.

Vincent-Wayne Mitchell is Professor of Consumer Marketing CASS Business School, City University London. He has done extensive research into marketing and consumer behaviour, with particular focus on consumer decision making, complaining behaviour and risk taking. He has won 8 Best Paper Awards and has published over 200 academic and practitioner papers in journals such as Journal of Business Research, British Journal of Management, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Consumer Affairs, International Journal of Advertising, Services Industries Journal, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Consumer Marketing, as well as numerous conference papers. He has worked with companies such as Coca Cola, Safeway, Tesco and the Cooperative Bank as well as completing a major study on consumer usage of quantity indicators for the DTI. He sits on the Editorial Boards of six international journals, is an Expert Adviser for the Office of Fair Trading and is Head of Marketing at CASS. Vince's new book Real People, Real Discussions won the Financial Times/Pearson Higher Education book of the Year in 2010:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=L0mRaMTBEfI

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, Westminster Business School (University of Westminster) since 2005. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Alicante in 2004 and was a research scholar at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2003 and 2004. Trino-Manuel also holds a Degree of Teacher in Clarinet (Hons) (1994) by the Superior Conservatory of Music of Alicante. Prior to joining the Westminster Business School (WBS), he taught microeconomics, econometrics and time-series analysis in the Department of Economics at the University of Alicante from 1999 to 2003. From 2003 through 2005, he worked as a graduate teacher assistant in the Departments of Economics and Statistics at the LSE. At WBS he has lectured in international economics and econometrics at postgraduate level, and in applied statistics at undergraduate level.

His research interests fall in the areas of econometric theory, semi-nonparametric methods, financial and macro-econometrics, continuous-time models, and forecasting. His current work focuses on semi-nonparametric density functions for modelling and forecasting the probability distribution of economic variables, long-memory time series, general equilibrium modelling and, market risk forecasting and regulation and their relation with efficiency in capital allocation, economic growth, and social welfare. He has published his research work in top journals such as Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics,International Journal of Forecasting, Quantitative Finance, Spanish Economic Review, Journal of Forecasting, among others.

Dr Dirk Nitzsche is a Senior Lecturer at Cass Business School (City University, London). He is also a visiting lecturer at New York University (in London) - Stern School since 2001 and has links with Olin Business School at Washington University in St Louis. After completing his PhD in 1996 he worked in the economics department at the University of Newcastle before joining City University Business School in 1997 and the Management School at Imperial College in 1998. In 2004 Dirk rejoined Cass Business School (City University) where he is the course director for MSc Financial Mathematics and MSc Quantitative Finance. Dirk has written a number of articles in refereed journals and recently co-authored three textbooks in finance: Investments: Spot and Derivative Markets (2001, 2008), Financial Engineering: Derivatives and Risk Management (2001) and Quantitative Financial Economics (2nd edition) (2004). He has presented his work at international conferences in Europe, the US and Australia. His research interests includes the wider areas of asset pricing as well as fund management and portfolio theory.

Dirk's current research focuses on the perfomance of the mutual fund industry where he uses sophisticated statistical techniques in alalysing the industry. Key questions which are addressed here are persistence of fund performance, ability of market timing and whether the fund performance can be explained by luck or skill.

Mike Newman is an Emeritus Professor at London Metropolitan University (attached to the Institute for the Study of European Transformations). He had previously been the Course Leader for the BA Peace and Conflict Studies and Professor of Politics, while also holding a Jean Monnet Personal Chair in European Studies. His most recent work is Humanitarian Intervention: Confronting the Contradictions (Hurst and Columbia University Press, 2009) and he is also the author of Socialism - A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005), Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left  (Merlin 2002), Democracy, Sovereignty and the European Union (Hurst, 1996), Harold Laski - A Political Biography (Macmillan, 1993), John Strachey (Manchester University Press, 1989), and Socialism and European Unity (Hurst, 1983). He is currently working on the topic of transitional justice and also acting as an adviser to International Alert, a peacebuilding NGO.

Charles C. Noel, an American, has lived and taught in London, for British and American Universities, since the early 1970s. Before that he earned his Ph.D. at Princeton University, and taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at Columbia University. His research speciality is eighteenth-century Spanish culture and politics, including the changing role of Bourbon court. He has published a number of articles and essays which have appeared in British, American, French and Spanish journals and collections. 

Benedict O’Looney M.Arch (Yale) is an architect and a lecturer at the Canterbury School of Architecture. He taught from 1994-2004 in the history and theory programme at the Architectural Association, and from 2004-2007 at the University of Kent. As a practitioner he has worked as a project architect at Alsop Architects and Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners contributing to their renovation of Paddington Station and the Bath Spa Project. The re-use of historic buildings is a particular focus of his work and that continues in his own practice Morris + O’Looney architects. Benedict is chair of Southwark’s Conservation Areas Advisory Group and the vice-president of the London Sketch Club. 

Dr. Deirdre Osborne is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Arts for Goldsmiths, University of London. Research and publications embrace late-Victorian literature (focusing on motherhood, maternity and colonial ideology), women and espionage in World War II France and contemporary Black British writing. She recently edited Hidden Gems (Oberon Books) and a Special Issue on Black British Women's Writing for Women: A Cultural Review. Other publications include essays and interviews with Kwame Kwei-Armah, Roy Williams, Lemn Sissay, debbie tucker green, Andrea Levy and SuAndi. Her next book is Critically Black: Contemporary Black British Dramatists and Theatre in the New Millennium (Manchester University Press). 

Julia Pascal is a playwright and theatre director who started her career as an actor.

She was the first woman director at the National Theatre.

Her plays have focused on Jewish history, culture and exile. They connect the personal and the political and explore a lost European history and its impact down the generations in London, Paris, New York and Jerusalem.

Julia's play on modern Israel, Crossing Jerusalem was set in the last intifada and was produced by the Tricycle Theatre and the Karlsruhe Staatsteater.
Most of her dramas have been seen in the UK, continental Europe and more recently at the Lincoln Center's Directors' Lab and at Theater for the New City in New York.
Her last play The Wedding Party was seen at the 2012 Ohrid Festival, Macedonia.
Currently she is researching a large work on Christian Zionism.

As a Writing Professor she hast taught at NYU's Study Abroad Program since 2008 and at St Lawrence's since 2003.
She was Writer in Residence at The Wiener Library, Kingston University, the University of York and she teaches at two German universities.

Her texts are published by Oberon Books, Faber, Virago and Boxtree, For nine years she was Dance Edtior of City Limits and an arts feature writer for The Guardian and other broadsheets. She has also worked as a freelance radio arts critic.

As a producer she is director of Pascal Theatre Company which runs children's drama workshops and creates new heritage projects funded by The Heritage Lottery Fund. Currently these are Between East and West, the first photographic exhibition of the British-born Chinese (spearheaded by Mike Tsang) and The Secret Listeners which explores the experience of those listening to German Prisoners Of War housed in Trent Park during World War Two.

Awards include the Alfred Bradley Prize for her stage play Theresa (commissioned by BBC Radio 4 at The Road To Paradise), the Colombine Prize for Best Play by Moondance in 2004 and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 2008.

Her next play, Nineveh, will premiere at the Riverside Studios, London in April 2013.

www.juliapascal.org

Anthony Price is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He has also taught at the University of York, the University of Oxford, and Brown University. He has enjoyed two research fellowships: one at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, another funded by the Leverhulme Foundation. He has published four books: three of these are published by Oxford University Press, one by Routledge; three are on Greek philosophy (largely Plato and Aristotle), one on practical reasoning and reasons for action.

Eliya Ribak graduated from Reading University in 2006 with a PhD in the archaeology of religion entitled: Religious Communities in Byzantine Palestina: the Relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam, AD 400 – 700. The thesis was subsequently published as a BAR. She is currently lecturing at Oxford University, Open University and Birkbeck College. Her research interests focus on Byzantine Palestina and the Byzantine Empire. She has published papers on art historical and architectural aspects of churches and synagogues in Byzantine Palestina and their implications to the rest of Byzantium and is presently writing an article on purity and water in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 

 I am interested in the way that someone's thoughts and behaviour are linked to those around them.  In my lab at University College London (www.eyethink.org), we use gaze, speech and motion tracking technology to investigate how perception and cognition are embedded in the social world. We present pictures, speech and movies to participants. They watch the displays, recall information, form opinions, talk to each other and play games. We explore how the identity, beliefs and simply the presence of other people can influence individuals’ cognitive and perceptual processing. Before coming to UCL, I was an undergraduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, a graduate student at Cornell, a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at Stanford University, and an assistant professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. I was fleetingly on the television as part of a BBC documentary, and recently received the Early Career Provost's Teaching Award at UCL..

Dr Jyoti Saraswati is a lecturer in International Political Economy on the Business and Political Economy Program at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is also Director of the Beyond the Developmental State Working Group for the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy. His research is focused on the political economy of emerging markets in Asia, particularly as it pertains to capital formation in, and the emergence of transnational corporations from, India and China. Prior to joining the Business and Political Economy Program, Dr Saraswati taught at the Department of International Development, Oxford University and the School of Politics and International Relations, Queen Mary, University of London. He holds an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Manchester, a Masters in Political Economy (with special reference to East Asia) from the University of Sheffield, and a PhD in Economics from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Prior to entering academia, Dr Saraswati worked across public and private sectors in both the UK and Japan and continues to provide consultancy to a number of major international organisations, including the European Commission and World Bank. He is author of Dot.compradors: Power and Policy in the Development of the Indian Software Industry and co-editor of Beyond the Developmental State: Industrial Policy into the 21st Century and has had articles published in academic journals as well as popular media outlets such as Open Democracy and Counterpunch. He is currently writing an international economics textbook centred on presenting a practical, rather than theoretical, guide to the structures of, and systems within, the global economy.

Hagai M. Segal is an academic, consultant and analyst, specialising in Middle Eastern affairs, geo-strategic issues, and modern terrorism/militancy. An analyst, consultant and advisor for numerous companies, private bodies, business groups, security agencies and politicians - advising them on these same issues - Hagai has taught and guest lectured at Universities across the globe. A regular guest on national + international television and radio stations/channels (including the BBC, Sky News and CNN), Hagai also writes for a number of newspapers and publications around the world, including regular Insight contributions for the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong). Hagai is the recipient of the NYU in London Annual Teaching Award for 2007-8. You can find further information on his work on his website at www.hagaisegal.com

Hagai has recently been commended for outstanding teaching evaluations on the Liberal Studies Program, by the Dean of Liberal Studies, Dean Schwarzbach. 

David Shepherd is a macroeconomist. He holds a PhD from the University of London and has extensive international teaching experience. He was a senior faculty member at Imperial College London and has held visiting professorial positions at the University of California, the University of Melbourne, and the Brisbane Graduate School of Business. David’s research interests are in macroeconomics, international finance and applied statistics. He is particularly interested in the statistical analysis of the business cycle and factors affecting regional, national and international economic performance. 

Dr Gavin Stamp, M.A., Ph.D. (Cantab.), born 1948, educated Cambridge University. Architectural historian and writer. From 1990 until 2003 he taught at the Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow School of Art, and was made a personal professor by the University of Glasgow. He is an honorary professor at the University of Cambridge. In 2003-4 he was a Bye-Fellow of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, and a Mellon Senior Research Fellow. Since then he has reverted to being an independent scholar, also involved with journalism and television. Author of books on Edwin Lutyens, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, George Gilbert Scott junior and other architectural subjects. His most recent books are The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme, Britain's Lost Cities, and Lost Victorian Britain.

Emma Claire Sweeney is a prize-winning writer, who teaches at New York University in London, City University's Novel Studio and the OU.

Educated at Cambridge University, the University of East Anglia, and the Open University, Emma Claire has been nominated for almost all of the UK's major short story prizes: she has won Arts Council, Escalator and Royal Literary Fund Awards, and has been shortlisted for the Asham, Wasafiri and Fish. Her short stories have been published in literary magazines in the UK, Ireland and the USA, and she is currently completing The Waifs and Strays of Sea View Lodge – a novel inspired by her disabled sister.

At the moment, Emma Claire is combining work on her novel with research and practice relating to learning disability. She is the recipient of an Open University Faculty scholarship and is the Arts Council writer-in-residence at Sunnyside Rural Trust, a social enterprise for people with learning disabilities. Her poetry collection, The Memoir Garden, documents this residency.

Emma Claire also writes literary features for publications such as The Times and Mslexia.

You can find out more about Emma Claire on her website www.emmaclairesweeney.com, and she tweets as @emmacsweeney.

Dr Eiko R. Thielemann is a Senior Lecturer in European Politics & Policy in the Department of Government and the European Institute of the London School of Economics. Since completing his PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2000, he has held academic positions at the University of Cambridge, the University of Southampton and LSE, as well as visiting posts at the Australian National University (ANU), the University of California San Diego (UCSD) and the University of Victoria. He has also worked as a consultant for the European Commission. His research focuses on EU- and comparative policy making in particular on issues such as: international co-operation (burden-sharing); asylum & immigration; multi-level governance, federalism, regionalism and devolution; redistribution, regional and state aid policy. He has been a guest-editor for the Journal of Common Market Studies and the Journal of Refugee Studies and is currently completing a research monograph on 'Burden-Sharing: The International Politics of Unwanted Migration'. 

Daya Thussu is Professor of International Communication and Co-Director of the India Media Centre of the University of Westminster in London. His research interests include political economy of global communication; global news flow; media and mediated culture in India and among South Asian diaspora. He is the Founder and Managaing Editor of the Sage journal Global Media and Communication. Among his main publications are: Contra-Flow in Global News (1992); Electronic Empires - Global Media and Local Resistance (1998); International Communication - Continuity and Change, third edition (forthcoming); War and the Media: Reporting Conflict 24/7 (2003) and Media on the Move - Global Flow and Contra-Flow (2006); News as Entertainment: The Rise of Global Infotainment (2007); Internationalizing Media Studies (2009) and Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives (2012)

BSc (Hons.) [Rhodes], MSc [Natal], PhD [Cantab.] FRSC.

Retired Senior Lecturer in Chemistry and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Queen Mary College, London University.

Major research interests: Pyrrolylpolyene fungal pigments, carotenoids, spectroscopic methods in organic chemistry.

Most recent publication: R Keese, M P Braendle & T P Toube, Practical Organic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester, 2006. 

Basic education:- Tollington Grammar School London N10 - State & Drapers'Co. scholar at Queen Mary College, London University, B.Sc (1st)-1954, Ph.D 1957. Academic posts:-Yale University ( Fulbright Travel scholarship) Post-doctoral research fellowship 1957-59. Lecturer Birmingham Univ., 1960, Lecturer (1961 - 72) Reader (1972-1998), physical chemistry Queen Mary College-London University, Snr.Lecturer (physical chem.) Brunel University (1998-2000), Lecturer (organic chemistry) New York Univ. (London) (2000- present). Other appointments:- Internation Atomic Energy Agency "expert" Buenos Aires (1954) Athens (1967 & 1972). Associate Prof - Univ. of Hawai'i (1978). Research interests:- Radiochemistry, Electronic structure of molecules, X-ray spectroscopy. Book 'Orbitals & Symmetry' 1970 , reprint 1979. Over 210 articles in the scientific literature (+conference reports, book reviews etc). Research grants received from EPSRC, Royal Society, Univ. of London, European Commission (DG XII). 

Dr. Donald Verry is a Teaching Fellow at University College London, where he teaches economic principles, labour economics and public economics. His research and publication areas are labour economics, human capital and development economics. He has acted advisor and consulatant to international organisations the OCED, ILO and UNDP.

Sophie von Stumm completed her PhD in Psychology in July 2010 at Goldsmiths University of London, to which she returned in September 2012 as a Lecturer after working at the Universities of Chichester and Edinburgh.

Sophie’s research explores the causes and consequences of individual differences in lifespan cognitive development, with a specific focus on the role of personality traits for intellectual growth and cognitive aging. Sophie has published in the top leading psychology journals, including Perspectives on Psychological Science and Psychological Bulletin, and her research has attracted funding from various bodies, including the ESRC and the Central Research Fund of the University of London.

Valerie Wells is research scientist in the Pharmaceutical Science Research Division at King’s College London. Her research is focused on defining differences in the signalling pathways which operate in normal and cancer cells, in order to exploit differences in their genetic makeup which can be targeted to selectively activate programmed cell death in cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. A novel cytokine, βGBP, has been identified and cloned and has been found to selectively induce apoptosis in cancer cells. Valeries Wells is currently investigating the molecular signalling pathways activated by βGBP leading to programmed cell death. 

Katharine Whitehead was born in Manchester and educated at the University of Sheffield where she completed an undergraduate degree in Physics and a doctorate in Experimental Solid State Physics. She then went on to work in Professor Donal Bradley’s Molecular Electronic Materials group at Imperial College, London specialising in Liquid Crystalline and Inorganic Semiconducting Polymers. 

Professor Guy Wilson graduated in 1955 with a Double First in Natural Sciences, with Part 2 in Physics, at the University of Cambridge. After obtaining a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory University of Cambridge he spent three years as a Researcher in the University of Chicago. The rest of his academic life was spent in the Physics Department Queen Mary University of London.

His main research was in use of molecules to create electronic devices. This pursuit evolved through polymer physics, into molecular electronics and biomimetics, and is now in nanotechnology. He retired as Full Professor and Head of the Molecular and Materials Physics Group in 2002, and was given the title Emeritus Professor. He remains an occasional visitor to that Group.

At this time he set up and subsequently runs the Physics Laboratory component of the NYU in London General Physics I and II courses. 

Matt Wolf is London theatre critic of The International Herald Tribune and London editor of the broadway.com website; he is also chief critic of the new theaternewsonline.com website, for which he covers productions in New York as well as London. For 13 years Matt was London theatre critic of Variety, and he spent over 20 years as the London-based arts and theatre writer for The Associated Press. A graduate of Yale, Matt moved to London in 1983, since which time he has written for most major newspapers on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Times and Sunday Times of London and The New York Times, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph. Matt is the author of two books, the most recent of which is Sam Mendes At the Donmar: Stepping Into Freedom. He has lectured frequently on many university programs in London and now teaches regularly for Syracuse University in London and the University of California at Berkeley's summer abroad program as well as NYU in London. 

Dr Philip Woods teaches Cultures and Contexts: Contesting British National Identity at NYU in London. Until recently he taught at Kingston University, London where he was Academic Advisor in the International Office. He studied History at the London School of Economics and at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His doctorate, which was published, was on British-Indian politics after the First World War. His current research is on the British use of film propaganda in India, and the role of war correspondents in Burma during the Second World War. He has published in a number of academic journals including The Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television, South Asia and Indian Horizons.