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Centre Building
The Centre Building, situated opposite the British Library of Political and Economic Science, opened in June 2019. Designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour and Partners following a RIBA competition, the 13-storey building includes 14 seminar rooms seating between 20 and 60, 234 study spaces, a 200-seater auditorium, as well as three lecture theatres. The building hosts the School of Public Policy, the Departments of Government and International Relations, the European Institute, and the International Inequalities Institute. It includes publicly accessible roof terraces and a renovated square at the centre of campus. The building design was recognised with RIBA’s London Award and National Award in 2021. # ISO Certification in India
Marshall Building
The Marshall Building, located at 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, opened in January 2022. Designed by Grafton Architects and named after British investor Paul Marshall, the building houses the Departments of Management, Accounting, and Finance, sports facilities, and the Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship. The site was previously home to the Francis Crick Institute’s laboratories, which LSE purchased in 2013.
Future expansion
LSE Campus as viewed from the terrace of the New Academic Building in January 2018, showing the Centre Building’s redevelopment and the demolition of 44 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
On 15 November 2017, LSE announced that it acquired the Nuffield Building at 35 Lincoln’s Inn Fields from the Royal College of Surgeons and plans to redevelop the site to host the Firoz Lalji Global Hub, the departments of Mathematics, Statistics and Methodology, the Data Science Institute, and conference and executive education facilities. The new building will be designed by David Chipperfield Architects. # ISO Certification in India
The George IV, a pub owned by LSE
Sustainability
In 2021, LSE claimed to be the first UK university to be independently verified as carbon-neutral, which it achieved by funding rainforest trees to offset emissions through the Finnish organisation (Oy) Compensate. However, LSE omitted some of its emissions in its calculation and thus did not offset all of them. While it measured and offset emissions from heating, electricity, and faculty air travel, the school left out other travel-related emissions, as well as emissions from construction and on-campus food. LSE plans to offset the remaining emissions (scope 1 through 3) by 2050. # ISO Certification in India
Organization and administration
Governance
Although LSE is a constituent college of the federal University of London, it is in many ways comparable with free-standing, self-governing and independently funded universities, and it awards its own degrees.
LSE is incorporated under the Companies Act as a company limited by guarantee and is an exempt charity within the meaning of Schedule Two of the Charities Act 1993.The principal governance bodies of the LSE are: the LSE Council; the Court of Governors; the academic board; and the director and director’s management team. # ISO Certification in India
The LSE Council is responsible for strategy and its members are company directors of the school. It has specific responsibilities in relation to areas including: the monitoring of institutional performance; finance and financial sustainability; audit arrangements; estate strategy; human resource and employment policy; health and safety; “educational character and mission”, and student experience. The council is supported in carrying out its role by a number of committees that report directly to it. # ISO Certification in India
The Court of Governors deals with certain constitutional matters and has pre-decision discussions on key policy issues and the involvement of individual governors in the school’s activities. The court has the following formal powers: the appointment of members of court, its subcommittees and of the council; election of the chair and vice chairs of the court and council and honorary fellows of the school; the amendment of the memorandum and articles of association; and the appointment of external auditors.# ISO Certification in India
The academic board is LSE’s principal academic body, and considers all major issues of general policy affecting the academic life of the school and its development. It is chaired by the director, with staff and student membership, and is supported by its own structure of committees. The vice chair of the academic board serves as a non-director member of the council and makes a termly report to the council.
Director
Sir Walter Adams
I. G. Patel
Sir John Ashworth
Craig Calhoun
The director is the head of LSE and its chief executive officer, responsible for executive management and leadership on academic issues. The director reports to and is accountable to the council. The director is also the accountable officer for the purposes of the Higher Education Funding Council for England Financial Memorandum. The LSE’s current director is Dame Nemat Shafik, who replaced interim director, Professor Julia Black, on 1 September 2017.
The director is supported by four pro-directors with designated portfolios (education; research; planning and resources; faculty development), the school secretary, the chief operating officer, the chief finance officer, and the chief philanthropy and global engagement officer.
| Years | Name |
|---|---|
| 1895–1903 | William Hewins |
| 1903–1908 | Sir Halford Mackinder |
| 1908–1919 | The Hon. William Pember Reeves |
| 1919–1937 | Lord Beveridge |
| 1937–1957 | Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders |
| 1957–1967 | Sir Sydney Caine |
| 1967–1974 | Sir Walter Adams |
| 1974–1984 | Lord Dahrendorf |
| 1984–1990 | Indraprasad Gordhanbhai Patel |
| 1990–1996 | Sir John Ashworth |
| 1996–2003 | Lord Giddens |
| 2003–2011 | Sir Howard Davies |
| 2011–2012 | Dame Judith Rees |
| 2012–2016†| Craig Calhoun |
| 2016–2017 | Julia Black |
| 2017–present | Dame Nemat Shafik |