political science and public policy

I am Professor of Public Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Much of my work is on accountability and transparency in public finance. I am currently writing a book on economists as policymakers and researching South African politics. I studied at the Freie Universität Berlin and Stellenbosch University and completed my PhD at LSE. I previously worked at the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (Idasa), and have also been a visiting scholar at Harvard, the Hertie School, Sciences Po Paris, and Stellenbosch. My full CV is here.


News and events

September 2026: ODI Public finance conference 2026: health spending under pressure in Nairobi.

June 2026: EPSS inaugural conference in Belfast.

May 2026: OECD Forum on Restoring Public Finances in Paris.

October 2025: Paper with Mark Hallerberg on how regimes and leaders shaped COVID-19 policy forthcoming at the Journal of Politics.

September 2025: Fiscal Ecosystems global dialogue convened with the TAI Collaborative in Gerzensee.