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The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university in London and is regarded as the world's most prestigious social science institution.
London School of Economics and Political Science
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General Information History of the School LSE & World Rankings Major Institutional Alliances 4.1 LSE - Sciences Po - Columbia Alliance 4.2 Global Public Policy Network 4.3 Franco-British Student Alliance Notable alumni or faculty 5.1 Heads of State or Heads of Government 5.2 Other Prominent Alumni or Faculty 5.3 Academics 5.4 Politics & Government 5.5 Media, Authors & Journalists 5.6 Business & Finance 5.7 Others List of the School's Directors LSE in Political Drama Trivia External links
Motto
Rerum cognoscere causas "To know the causes of things"
E s t a b l i s h e d 1895 Director
Howard Davies
Location
London, United Kingdom
Students
7,510 total (3,489 postgraduate)
Faculty
644
Member of University of London, Russell Group, 1994 Group, APSIA, EUA Homepage
http://www.lse.ac.uk
General Information The School is a major centre of political debate. LSE alumni and former staff include thirteen Nobel Prize winners in Economics, Peace and Literature, around thirty-three heads of state or heads of government, including eight current heads of state or government, thirty current British Members of Parliament, and twenty-nine current peers of the House of Lords. The School is regarded as a pacemaker in the study of economics, political science, law, international relations, accounting and finance, philosophy of science, anthropology, sociology, and social policy. The main library of the The LSE, Old Building LSE is the British Library of Political and Economic Science (BLPES)[1] (http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/) , and is the world's largest library dedicated to the social sciences. According to the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council: "The Library is considered to be the most significant centre for social scientists in the UK due to its vast collection of both primary archive resources and secondary resources including research monographs and serial titles. Its historical collection of pamphlets in all European languages is unrivalled; many items are rare and not duplicated in
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any other library." The LSE is located on Houghton Street in Central London, off the Aldwych and next to the Royal Courts of Justice. The LSE is a constituent college of the federal University of London. There are nearly 7,000 full-time students and around 750 part-time students at the university. Of these, 38% come from the United Kingdom, 18% from other European Union countries, and 44% from more than 130 other The LSE, St Clement's countries. Around 48% are women and 52% are postgraduates. Courses are Building taught in over thirty research departments and twenty-one departments, including Accounting and Finance, Management, Anthropology, Economic History, Economics, The Development Studies Institute, the European Institute, Geography and Environment, Government, Industrial Relations, Information Systems, International History, International Relations, Law, Mathematics, Media and Communications, Operational Research, Philosophy Logic and Scientific Method, Social Policy, Social Psychology, Sociology, and Statistics. The School also has a very active student newspaper, The Beaver, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary, as well as other media outlets such as PuLSE Radio, The Script, and LooSE, a student-operated TV station. The LSE Students' Union (http://www.lsesu.com/) is one of the most active in Europe, and earned a global reputation for liberal activism in the 1950s and 1960s. The LSE regularly attracts speakers of international distinction. For example, in May 2005 José Manuel Barroso (President of the European Commission) and John Edwards were amongst those who gave lectures. Past speakers have included Bill Clinton, Vicente Fox, Kofi Annan, and Nelson Mandela. Hardly a week goes by without a head of government or senior minister visiting LSE to give a lecture. For example, during one week in October 2005 alone, the Crown Prince of Norway and his Foreign minister (Wednesday 26th October), the Prime Minister of Turkey (Thursday 27th October), and the Prime Minister of Poland (Friday 28th October) visited the LSE.
History of the School The London School of Economics and Political Science was founded in 1895 after a bequest to the Fabian Society of some £20,000 by Henry Hunt Hutchinson in 1894. The decision to found the School was made at a breakfast party between four Fabians: Beatrice and Sidney Webb, George Wallas, and George Bernard Shaw on 4 August 1894. Old Building Entrance
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The real driving force for the School was the Webbs, and in particular Sidney, for whom such a School had been an idea of long standing. The Hutchinson bequest coincided not just with the Webbs' ideas, but also with a wider movement in society. Politically and economically, people feared that Britain's international position in business and industry was at risk because of inadequate teaching and research. In August 1894, the British Association for the Advancement of Science spoke out for the need to advance the systematic study of economics along the lines of the Ecole Libre des Sciences
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Politiques (better known as Sciences Po) in Paris. The timing was favourable, the idea found support, and the London School of Economics and Political Science held its first classes in October 1895 at rooms at No 9 John Street, Adelphi. The School's academic purpose was clear: original lectures, the scientific and objective discovery of facts, research and the training of researchers. In 1905/6, there were 181 postgraduates in the whole of England and Wales: 27 at Oxford, 36 at Cambridge, 49 at other universities - and 69 at LSE. Within its first decade, the School had become established as a world-class centre of research. LSE's expansion was rapid. The British Library of Political and Economic Science was created alongside the School, and in 1896 the institution moved from 9 John Street, Adelphi to 10 Adelphi Terrace. In 1900, LSE was recognised as a Faculty of Economics in the newly constituted University of London, and in 1901 the Faculty degrees were announced as the Bachelor of Science (Econ.) and Doctor of Science (Econ.). These were the first university degrees principally dedicated to the social sciences, and LSE became the institution where the social sciences were established in Britain. The LSE also formed the second oldest faculty Chair in International Relations in the world around this time in addition to faculty chairs in history, philosophy, sociology, and various other fields of the social sciences.
In 1902, the School moved to its first purpose-built site at Passmore Edwards Hall in Clare Market, near Aldwych and the Strand. The School has since continued to grow there, beginning in 1922 with the construction of Old Building in the adjacent Houghton Street. From the outset, the LSE was proud of its unique perspective, and pragmatic in its outlook on life and in its reactions to historical circumstances. It was the first such institution in England, and--as the Webbs hoped--it attracted gifted students and academics from both the United Kingdom and other countries worldwide. The LSE was never intended to be purely academic but to use the higher study of economics and political science to educate and train people for careers in administration and business. LSE Library
The LSE is located close to the BBC on the Aldwych, giving journalists easy access to LSE academics. Under the previous Directorship of Anthony Giddens, the LSE was heavily involved in public debate over Labour Party policy in Britain.
LSE & World Rankings League tables published by British newspapers consistently rank the LSE inside the top four academic institutions in the country. In recent years, the LSE has become the second largest overall research university in the United Kingdom, second only to Cambridge, and the largest in the social sciences. The 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings ranked the LSE as follows: 2nd in the world for the social sciences 4th in the world according to recruiters' eyes 9th in the world for arts and humanities 11th in the world overall
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The 2004 Times Higher Education Supplement World University Rankings also ranked LSE 2nd in the world for the social sciences and 11th in the world overall, as well as 10th in the world for arts and humanities (the employers' rankings of world universities did not feature in the 2004 rankings). The 2005 Sunday Times University Guide wrote, 'Nobody (in the UK) can match the LSE for social sciences. It is a cut above every other institution in the country in its specialist area and can compete with any in the wider world, from which it recruits many of its students' (p. 37). London School of Economics coat of arms
According to the 2005 Times Higher Education Supplement, the LSE has the highest proportion of international students in the world, and the second highest proportion of international staff in the world. Over 70% of its student body coming from outside the United Kingdom, and well over 130 countries represented on campus in any given year. During the 1950s and 60s, the School had more countries represented on campus than the United Nations. In a 2003 profile of the School, The Guardian newspaper depicted the LSE as having "more influence on the contemporary political world than any other university in the world."
Major Institutional Alliances LSE - Sciences Po - Columbia Alliance The LSE recently formalised a major institutional alliance with the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences-Po) in Paris and Columbia University in New York, which has been burgeoning for years. The alliance developed as a result of the good working relationship between the institutions through their partnership in establishing Fathom, a centre for online knowledge and learning from the world's leading universities, libraries, museums and research institutes. LSE and Columbia Business School are also collaborators in UNext.com, a privately held company dedicated to the development and delivery of business education and training via the Internet. So far, the alliance has achieved three joint Masters degree programs in public policy and environmental studies, including a Master of Public Administration, a Master of Public Policy, and Master of Science, two joint law degree programs, a joint Master of Laws (LLM) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB), at least five joint research projects, one joint research centre, and an endowment through joint fundraising to provide scholarships for students to enroll or participate in the research performed by the LSE, Sciences Po and Columbia affiliation.
Global Public Policy Network Another of the more significant results of the Sciences Po-LSE-Columbia University alliance is the launch of the Global Public Policy Network, or GPPN. The program was launched by representatives from all three schools on 20 September 2005 at Peking University in Beijing, China. The network is meant to foster an academic research and policy dialogue among three of the world's leading public affairs schools to address pressing global problems. The Network will eventually expand to include about ten public policy graduate schsools in key world cities, sponsoring collaborative public policy research and student and faculty exchanges, as well as offering dual degrees in graduate professional programs.
Franco-British Student Alliance
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The LSE is also a founding member of the Franco-British Student Alliance (FBSA), a forum for students and leaders from both countries to address together the future of Franco-British relations. Founded during the Centenary of the Entente Cordiale, the FBSA unites the students and young alumni of six major universities from both sides of the Channel: the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the London School of Economics (LSE), Sciences Po Paris (the French counterpart of LSE), HEC (the top business school in Europe according to the Financial Times) and the Ecole Polytechnique (France's top engineering school). The ambition of the FBSA is to promote Franco-British cooperation and the global competitiveness of British and French universities.
Notable alumni or faculty See also List of London School of Economics people
Heads of State or Heads of Government Harmodio Arias (1886-1962) - President of Panama,1932-1936 Oscar Arias (b. 1941) - President of Costa Rica and Nobel Prize Winner Errol Walton Barrow (1920-1987) - Prime Minister of Barbados, 1962-1966, 1966-1976, 1986-1987 Marek Belka (b. 1952) - Prime Minister of Poland, 2004-present Pedro Gerardo Beltran Espanto (1897-1979) - Prime Minister of Peru, 1959-1961 Heinrich Brüning (1885-1970) - Chancellor of Germany, 1930-1932 Kim Campbell (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Canada, June-November 1993 Eugenia Charles (b. 1919) - Prime Minister of Dominica, 1980-1995 John Compton (b. 1926) - Premier of Saint Lucia, 1964-1979, and Prime Minister of Saint Lucia, February-July 1979 & 1982-1996 Sher Bahadur Deuba (b. 1943) - Prime Minister of Nepal, 1995-1997, 2001-2002, 2004-2005 Tuanku Jaafar (b. 1922) - Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King) of Malaysia, 1994-1999 John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) - President of the U.S.A. 1961-1963 Jomo Kenyatta (1891-1978) - First President of Kenya, 1964-1978 Mwai Kibaki (b. 1931) - President of Kenya, 2002-present Thanin Kraivichien (b. 1927) - Prime Minister of Thailand, 1976-1977 Yu Kuo-Hwa (1914-2000) - Premier of Taiwan, 1984-1989 Hilla Limann (1934-1998) - President of Ghana, 1979-1981 Pumarejo Alfonso Lopez - President of Colombia, 1934-1938, 1942-1945 Michael Manley (1924-1997) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1972-1980, 1989-1992 Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara (1920-2004) - Prime Minister of Fiji 1970-1992, President of Fiji 1994-2000 Queen Margrethe II (b. 1940) - Queen of Denmark, 1972-present Beatriz Merino, first female Prime Minister of Peru, 2002-2003 Shri K R Narayanan (1997-2002) - President of India Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972) - First President of Ghana, 1960-1966 Jacques Parizeau, Premier of Quebec, 1994-1995 Percival Patterson (b. 1935) - Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-present Romano Prodi (b. 1939) - Prime Minister of Italy, 1996-1998 and President of the European Commission, 1999-2004 Navinchandra Ramgoolam (b. 1947) - Prime Minister of Mauritius, 1995-2000, 2005-present Veerasainy Ringadoo (1920-2000) - First President of Mauritius, March-June 1992 Moshe Sharett (1894-1965) - Prime Minister of Israel, 1953-1955 Constantine Simitis (b. 1936) - Prime Minister of Greece, 1996-2004 Anote Tong (b. 1952) - President of Kiribati, 2003-present Pierre Trudeau (1919-2000) - Prime Minister of Canada, 1968-1979, 1980-1984
Other Prominent Alumni or Faculty Academics Daron Acemoglu (John Bates Clark Medal Winner 2005)
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Sir Roy Allen (Economist and Mathematician) Sir Arthur Bowley (Statistician/professor) Hedley Bull (one of the world's foremost scholars in the field of International Relations) Ralph Bunche (Nobel prize winner) Nancy Cartwright (philosopher) Ronald Coase (Nobel prize winner) Albert Venn Dicey - Author of Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution; one of the most famous English jurists ever. Paul Feyerabend (philosopher) Professor Lord Anthony Giddens (a former Director of the School, who is the most cited contemporary sociologist in the world and is widely regarded as the field's foremost scholar) Gianandrea Goisis (Political economist/professor) John Gray (political philosopher) Amy Gutmann (President of the University of Pennsylvania, 2004-present; former Provost of Princeton University, 2001-2004) W.D. Hamilton (grandfather of sociobiology and the 'selfish gene' theory popularised by Dawkins) Friedrich Hayek (economist) Imre Lakatos (philosopher) Harold Laski (political scientist and economist) Lord Richard Layard (economist) Sir Arthur Lewis (Nobel prize winner) Halford MacKinder (geographer and LSE director, 1903-1908) Z.K. Mathews (prominent Apartheid-era South African academic) Ralph Miliband (political scientist) Merton Miller (Nobel prize winner) Robert Mundell (Nobel prize winner) Philip Noel-Baker (Nobel prize winner) Sir Karl Popper (philosopher) Lionel Robbins (economist) Bertrand Russell (philosopher, Nobel prize winner) Arthur Seldon (free market ideologue) David Starkey, (historian specialising in Tudor England) Allyn Abbott Young (economist)
Politics & Government Roberto Abdenur (former Brazilian Ambassador to the US) Elliott Abrams (Assistant Secretary of State in the Reagan Administration; founding member of the Project for the New American Century; Special Assistant to the President and Policy Director on the National Security Council in the George W. Bush Administration) Prince Amedeo of Belgium Kader Asmal (South African politician and member of the African National Congress' Executive Committee Taro Aso (Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs) Cherie Booth QC (wife of Tony Blair) Ed Broadbent (Canadian socialist opposition leader) Johnnie Carson (US Ambassador to Zimbabwe in the Clinton Administration) Shami Chakrabarti (Director of Liberty) Yvette Cooper (British MP, Minister for Housing and Planning) Hugh Dalton (former Chancellor of the Exchequer) Rosa DeLauro (high-ranking Democratic Member of the US House of Representatives) Kemal Dervis (UNDP Administrator (Head) and former Minister of Finance of Turkey) Frank Dobson (former Health Secretary) Sir Morris Finer (Barrister, Judge, Chairman of the Finer Report on One Parent Families & the Royal Commission on the Press, Vice Chairman of Governors of LSE) Stanley Fischer (Governor of the Bank of Israel) Ian A. Goldin (Vice President of External Affairs, World Bank) Christopher Greenwood QC (esteemed international lawyer; advised Tony Blair and the Bush Administration on the legality of the 2003 Iraq war)
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Marc Grossman (U.S. Under Secretary of State) Margaret Hodge (British MP, Minister for Children) Robert E. Hunter (Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO) Derry Irvine, Baron Irvine of Lairg (former Lord Chancellor) C. Donald Johnson (former Member of Congress and US Ambassador) Ruth Kelly (UK Secretary of State for Education) Anthony Kennedy (U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice) Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (first son of Joseph Kennedy and brother to John F. Kennedy) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (environmental activist, son of slain Senator Robert Kennedy) Vanessa Kerry (Democratic activist and daughter of Senator John Kerry (D-MA)) Mervyn King (Governor of the Bank of England) Mark S. Kirk (prominent Republican Member of the US House of Representatives) James A. Leach (prominent Republican Member of the US House of Representatives) Monica Lewinsky (former White House intern involved in sex scandal wither former President Bill Clinton) Dr Maleeha Lodhi (prominent Pakistani politician; Pakistani Ambassador to the United Kingdom) Joy MacPhail (former finance minister and deputy premier of British Columbia) Haakon Magnus (Crown Prince of Norway) John J. Maresca (former US Ambassador to the OSCE in the George H.W. Bush Administration) Baron Merlyn-Rees (former Home Secretary) Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr. (American criminal defense attorney) Baron Moore of Lower Marsh (Cabinet Minister under Thatcher) Daniel Patrick Moynihan (former U.S. Senator) Franz Neumann, (First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal) Alice Paul (American suffragist) Dr N.M. Perera, Sri Lankan Trotskyist freedom-agitator, politician and trade-unionist, parliamentarian, Mayor of Colombo, Leader of the Lanka Sama Samaja Party, twice Minister of Finance, twice Leader of the Opposition, first ever Sri Lankan DSc. Richard Perle (Political advisor) Saif el-Islam el-Qaddafi (Political activist and elder son of Libyan President Muammar Qaddafi) James P. Rubin (former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and Chief Spokesman for the Department of State in the Clinton Administration; lead foreign policy adviser to the 2004 Kerry-Edwards campaign) Robert Rubin (former U.S. Treasury Secretary, former Director of Goldman Sachs) Dr Don Russell former Australian Ambassador to the US and adviser to Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating Tharman Shanmugaratnam (Singapore's Minister of Education, and the Deputy Chairman of the Monetary Authority of Singapore [2] (http://www.cabinet.gov.sg/tharman.htm) ) Michelle Sison (US Ambassador to the UAE in the Bush Administration) Jonas Gahr Støre (Norwegian Minister of Foreign Affairs) Paul Volcker (former Chairman of Federal Reserve) David Welch (Assistant Secretary of State in the Clinton Administration; US Ambassador to Egypt in the Bush Administration) Janet Yellen (Former Member of the Council of Economic Advisers in the Clinton Administration and the current President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, 2004-present)
Media, Authors & Journalists Sir David Attenborough (TV Presenter) Edwina Currie (politician, author, radio presenter) Loyd Grossman (TV Chef/Presenter) Robert Kilroy-Silk (TV Presenter and politican) Bernard Levin (journalist) Michael Lewis (#1 New York Times best selling author of Moneyball, Next, The New New Thing, Liar's Poker, Trail Fever, and The Money Culture; contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine and Bloomberg) John Honderich (former Publisher of the Toronto Star) China Miéville (writer) Nisha Pillai (BBC World presenter)
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Owen Bennett-Jones (BBC Worldservice journalist) Jules O'Riordan (aka Judge Jules) (Radio 1 DJ) Tara Scharma (Bollywood film star) Siddharth Varadarajan (journalist and editor)
Business & Finance Delphine Arnault (Billionaire French businesswoman) Stelios Haji-Ioannou (entrepreneur, founder of EasyGroup) Jorma Ollila (CEO of Nokia Corporation) Charles Saatchi (Founder, Saatchi and Saatchi) Maurice Saatchi (Founder, Saatchi and Saatchi) George Soros (Billionaire; Notable Financier)
Others Sir Mick Jagger (Rock star, left LSE for music) Valerie Plame, (CIA officer who was controversially identified in a newspaper column by Robert Novak in July 2003) Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (Carlos the Jackal, criminal) Omar Sheikh (international terrorist)
List of the School's Directors Sir Howard Davies 2003-Present Professor Lord Anthony Giddens 1997-2003 Dr John Ashworth 1990-96 Dr Indraprasad (IG) Patel 1984-90 Professor Lord Ralf Dahrendorf 1974-84 Sir Walter Adams 1967-74 Sir Sydney Caine 1957-1967 Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders 1937-57 Sir William (later Lord) Beveridge 1919-37 William Pember Reeves 1908-19 Sir Halford Mackinder 1903-08 William Hewins 1895-1903
LSE in Political Drama Certain fictional characters in popular political dramas and comedies have been depicted as LSE graduates. These include President Josiah Bartlet of The West Wing TV series, and Prime Minister Jim Hacker of the Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister BBC TV series.
Trivia Monica Lewinsky will take a MSc in Social Psychology at LSE beginning in the Michaelmas term (autumn) of 2005.
External links
LSE website (http://www.lse.ac.uk/) LSE Students' Union website (http://www.lsesu.com/) LSE & Columbia Alliance (http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/researchAndProjectDevelopmentDivision/partnershipProgrammes/USA/Columbia/
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