Professor Christine Whitehead is the Deputy Director of LSE London. Christine is an applied economist whose research is well-known in both academic and policy circles and is Emeritus Professor of Housing Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ann is LSE London research associate. She has over thirty years’ experience working as a researcher in a range of environments both academic and commercial. In 2012 Ann became a partner in Edge Planning and Development LLP specialising in town planning, urban development and the built environment. Ann’s background is in Economics and Social Policy. She has a longstanding interest in comparative education policy as well as planning policy and the planning system, but the focus of her recent work has been the operation of the housing market including the provision of and access to affordable housing, as well as homelessness.