Adnan Khan is a Lead Academic for the IGC's State Fragility initiative.
Professor Khan is a professor of practice at the School of Public Policy at the London School of Economics (LSE). Currently, he is on secondment as Chief Economist to the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) of the UK.
Before joining the School of Public Policy and STICERD , Professor Khan served as Research and Policy Director at the International Growth Centre at LSE and taught Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Professor Khan has spent more than 15 years in the policy world as a practitioner, policymaker and activist, and more than 10 years in the research world as a researcher, lecturer and as a catalyser of other people’s research.
His areas of interest include economic development and state capacity, political economy and state fragility, and public finance.
