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Neil Lee

  • Professor
  • London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Roles

Researchers

Neil is an Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the LSE. He is also Director of the MSc in Local Economic Development and the BSc in Geography with Economics. He joined the Department in 2013, having previously been Head of Socio-Economic Research at The Work Foundation. His research considers cities, economic change and the social dimensions of innovation. He holds a PhD in Economic Geography from the LSE and was a visiting scholar at TCLab, Columbia University.

Projects

The road from Kitwe, through the Copperbelt

Place-based economic development in Zambia's copperbelt

Gharad Bryan, Shahrukh Wani, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Neil Lee, Eric Werker, Benjamin Shawa
Project

All contributions

A landscape image of Zambia, featuring a blue sky and clouds, mountains, desert and grass.

Unlocking economic prosperity in the Zambian Copperbelt

Niels Mulder, Gharad Bryan, Neil Lee, Juliana Oliveira-Cunha, Benjamin Shawa, Shahrukh Wani, Eric Werker
Policy paper

Inclusive growth for cities: Fuzzy, functional or forsaken?

Oliver Harman, Neil Lee
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