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Professor Craig Calhoun took up the post of Director in September 2012.

Its previous Director, Professor Judith Rees, is also chair of the school's Grantham Institute on Climate Change, an adviser to the World Bank as well as sitting on the UN Secretary General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation and the International Scientific Advisory Council ( ISAC ).

She is also a former Convenor of the Department of Geography and Environment, and served as Deputy Director from 1998 – 2004.

Her predecessor, Sir Howard Davies stepped down after controversy regarding the School's links to the Libyan regime.

In February 2011, LSE had to deal with controversy regarding the authorship of the PhD thesis of one of Muammar Gaddafi's sons, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, and also a £ 1. 5m donation to university.

In March 2011, Howard Davies resigned over allegations about the institution's links to the Libyan regime.

The LSE announced in a statement that it had accepted his resignation with " great regret " and that it had set up an external inquiry into the school's relationship with the Libyan regime and Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, to be conducted by the former lord chief justice Harry Woolf.