2026-01-21
1 小时 22 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
Welcome to LSE for this hybrid event.
My name is Professor Catherine Hostetler and I'm Professor of International Development in the Department of International Development here at the LSE.
And I will be chairing this event.
I'm very pleased to be here to welcome our in-person and also online audiences.
We are also being accompanied online to the Hong Kong Theater today.
This event is part of our inaugural lecture series of our professors from across the school.
These events are a special moment in an academic's career
as it marks that they have been promoted to a professor.
Congratulations, Stefan.
It's a very important step.
We are delighted that you can all join us as we celebrate the successes of our community.
I would like to welcome our speaker, Professor Stefan Herzog.
He is a professor in comparative politics in the Department of Government at the LSE.
He joined the Department of Government in 2010 as a lecturer.
He was previously Kuwait professor at St.
Paul Paris, lecturer in political economy at the University of Durham,
and post-doctoral research fellow at Princeton University.
He holds an MA from the University of Bonn,