Cross-Functional Leadership

Amelia is a social scientist with a background in policy and consulting. She studies how education systems adapt to societal and economic change. Prior to LIS, Amelia taught in the Social Policy department at LSE. She received her PhD from Harvard and her BA from Oxford.

Mattia is a philosopher who lectured on social sciences at LSE prior to joining LIS. He has published on the notion of Collective Intelligence and its applicability to the modern workplace.

Niccolò is a behavioural and data scientist with a DPhil from Oxford, researching collective intelligence and how groups become smarter than individuals. He is calso o-founder and Chief Scientist of PSi.

Founder of the DaVinci Network, Waqās wrote "The Polymath" (Wiley 2019) and created the Polymath Festival. His research focuses on human diversity and performance. He holds degrees in Economics, International History, and Neuroscience, and has worked in diplomatic journalism and visual art.

Kaysara works at the science-policy interface, using interdisciplinary approaches to manage terrestrial and marine ecosystems. With a PhD in Geography and expertise spanning natural and social sciences, she advises governments, private sectors, and civil society on ecological preservation.

Adam is a quantitative anthropologist applying data science to human behaviour, having taught at Oxford as Departmental Lecturer in Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, with degrees from Cambridge, UCL and Oxford.

David is a challenger, facilitator, synthesizer, and adviser who, for the last four decades, has been founding, leading and working with and in local, national and international organisations and systems to solve complex problems and respond to social, economic, technological and cultural changes.

Charlotte leads partner collaborations, the LIS Network, and business development for LIS short courses, drawing on a career across arts, social change, healthcare and charity work, previously at the Young Vic and the RSA.