Gita Subrahmanyam

North Africa expert and Research Associate, LSE Public Policy Group

Gita Subrahmanyam is a Research Associate of the LSE Public Policy Group. She has a long association with the LSE: she completed her master’s and doctorate at the School and was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government. Her PhD thesis analysed patterns of state-building and development across the British Empire, and was awarded the Walter Bagehot Prize for Best Dissertation in Government and Public Administration in the United Kingdom. During her PhD, Subrahmanyam was a Lecturer in Politics and Imperial History at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Her research and publications focus on the contemporary impact of Western colonialism on democratisation and development in Africa and Asia, but she also has extensive practical experience in public policy research and evaluation. She is currently assisting the African Development Bank in designing strategies for tackling youth unemployment in the Maghreb and was part of a team advising the Bank on its employment generation initiative for Tunisia.