Jonathan Leape | |
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Academic career | |
Institution | International Growth Centre, London School of Economics |
Field | Development economics |
Alma mater | University of Oxford Harvard University |
Jonathan Leape is the Executive Director of the International Growth Centre, and an Associate Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. [1]
His areas of research include public economics, teaching and learning in higher education, financial sector reforms, taxation, congestion charging, and capital flows. [2] He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. [2]
Jonathan Leape has been at the London School of Economics and Political Science since 1985. In 1990, after a request from the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Australia), he set up the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, based at the LSE. [3]
In 2009 Jonathan Leape became the Director of LSE:100, an LSE course that introduces undergraduate students to social science. [4] He became the Executive Director of the International Growth Centre in 2013. [3]