Our team

The Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) brings together a diverse community of researchers and practitioners underpinned by a shared vision for sustainable and inclusive prosperity

Our Founder & Director
Dame Prof Henrietta L. Moore

Professor Dame Henrietta L. Moore is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity and the Chair in Culture Philosophy and Design at University College London.

A leading global thinker on prosperity, Professor Moore challenges traditional economic models of growth arguing that to flourish communities, businesses and governments need to engage with diversity and work within environmental limits. Her recent policy work focus on new economic models, Universal Basic Services, Artificial Intelligence, environmental degradation and decarbonisation, displaced people and the gender pay gap.

In 2016 Professor Moore was made Dame Commander of the British Empire for contribution to social sciences, services to business, policy and the arts. She is also Chair of the London Prosperity Board, a Fellow of the Clean Growth Network, a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the RSA, an Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences, and a Member of the IOD.

Formerly William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, the LSE Deputy Director for research and external relations, and Director of the Gender Institute at the LSE from 1994-1999, she has held numerous Visiting Appointments in the United States, Germany, Portugal, Norway, and South Africa.

  • Christopher Harker
    Associate Professor
    Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity

    Mara Torres Pinedo
    Director of Education

    Robert Costanza
    Professor of Ecological Economics, Co-Programme Lead for MSc in Prosperity, People & Planet, and Research Director

    Konrad Miciukiewicz
    Senior Teaching Fellow

    Onya Idoko
    Lecturer & Co-Programme Lead for MSc Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

    Yuan He
    Lecturer & Programme Lead for MSc Global Prosperity 

    Ville Takala
    Lecturer

    Lei Zhou
    Lecturer

    Ida Kubiszewski
    Associate Professor & Co-Programme Lead for MSc in Prosperity, People & Planet

    Maurizio Marinelli
    Professor of China and Global Prosperity

    Jacqueline McGlade
    Professor of Natural Prosperity, Sustainable Development and Knowledge Systems

    Nikolay Mintchev
    Principal Research Fellow and Executive Lead, Prosperity Co-Lab Lebanon (PROCOL Lebanon) 

    Saffron Woodcraft
    Professorial Research Fellow and Executive Lead, Prosperity Co-Lab UK (PROCOL UK)

    Hanna Baumann 
    Principal Research Fellow

    Sertaç Sehlikoglu
    Principal Research Fellow

    Simon Nyokabi
    Research Fellow

    Fatemeh Sadeghi
    Senior Research Associate 

    Erol Saglam
    Marie Curie Fellow 

    Angus Armstrong
    Professorial Research Fellow in Rebuilding Macroeconomics

    Nikolaos Tzivanakis
    Head of Data

    Marcell T. Kurbucz
    Research Fellow (Quantitative)

    Nil Sari Aslam
    Research Fellow (Quantitative): ERC BENEFIT Project

  • Yukiko Fujimoto
    Institute Manager 

    Sarah Nisi
    Research Officer

    Elena Scali
    Executive Assistant to the Director

    Eva Lamorgese
    Senior Global Engagement and Impact Manager

    Ben Anderson
    Finance Manager

    Chidinma Ibemere
    Project Officer (FF2030)

    Rahaf Zaher
    PROCOL Lebanon Coordinator

    Humphrey Mathenge
    PROCOL Africa Coordinator

    Alexander Pymm
    Research Grant Administrator 

  • Albert Bressand
    Dr Albert Bressand is Professor (emeritus) in energy and international governance.

    William Hynes
    William Hynes is Co-ordinator of New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) in the Office of the Chief Economist at OECD which provides a space to question traditional economic ideas and offer new economic narratives, new tools, methods and policy approaches. He has led the NAEC work since 2016.

    He previously worked as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary General, Advisor in the Sherpa and Global Governance Unit, Senior Economist in the Office of the Secretary General, Economist in the Development Co-operation Directorate and an Economic Affairs Officer in the Office of the Deputy Director General at the World Trade Organisation.

    William is an Associate Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an Applied Complexity Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He has a doctorate from Oxford University and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics.

    Dennis Snower
    Dennis Snower is Visiting Professor at the IGP. He is President of the Global Solutions Initiative, Berlin; Professorial Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking, Oxford University; Non-resident Fellow at Brookings.

    Previously he was Program Chair at The New Institute, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy and Professor of Economics at the Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel.

    Dennis J. Snower earned a BA and MA from New College, Oxford University, an MA and a PhD at Princeton University. He is an expert on labor economics, socio-economics, public policy and inflation-unemployment tradeoffs. He is currently working on a new paradigm for economics with David Sloan Wilson. He is the author of a major report on digital governance with reform with Paul Twomey.

    He has published extensively on employment policy, the design of welfare systems, and monetary and fiscal policy, and the role of psychological motivation systems in economic decision making.

    He has been a visiting professor at many universities around the world, including Columbia, Princeton, Dartmouth, Harvard, the European University Institute, Stockholm University, and the Vienna Institute of Advanced Studies. He has advised a variety of international organizations and national governments on macroeconomic policy, employment policy and welfare state policy. 

    Arthur Kay
    Arthur Kay is an honorary Associate Professor, author and advisor who supports various organisations building solutions for sustainable cities including Innovo Group. He is the Chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering Climate Roundtable and a board member of Transport for London (TfL), the Museum of the Home and Fast Forward 2030.

    Solveiga Pakštaitė
    Solveiga is an inventor and entrepreneur with an industrial design background. She invented Mimica Touch, a patented temperature sensitive accurate food freshness indicator that reduces food waste and improves food safety. Solveiga is the Founder & Director of Mimica and was named MIT Technology Review's Inventor of the Year. She also is a founding board member of Fast Forward 2030 and consults on innovation projects for leading consumer and technology companies.

    Debananda Misra
    Debananda (Deb) is interested in questions related to the organisation, management and governance of universities and the role of higher education in generating public outcomes. More broadly, he examines how knowledge production, dissemination and flows, as carried out by universities, startups, and organizational innovation units, can tackle public challenges and generate public value. He examines policies, systems, organizations, and structures related to knowledge and their effects on innovation and entrepreneurship, and professional work.

    Deb is a full-time faculty member at the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is an affiliate member of the Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) at Lund University, Sweden, and is the Associate Editor of the Higher Education Quarterly journal. 

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