By Saira Afzal
LSE has appointed Professor Alex Voorhoeve as the next Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development, beginning 1 September 2025. According to an LSE-wide broadcasted email Professor Charles Stafford will remain as the current Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development until 31 August 2025, after which Professor Voorhoeve will assume the position.
Professor Alex Voorhoeve joined LSE in 2004, specialising in political philosophy and public policy with a particular focus on distributive justice and the allocation of resources for public health. His research specialisations include decision theory and moral psychology. Professor Voorhoeve was previously Head of the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, and during his time at LSE he developed three interdisciplinary degrees: BSc Politics and Philosophy, MSc Philosophy and Public Policy, and BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics.
Further, Professor Voorhoeve has held positions at Harvard, Princeton, and the National Institutes of Health. He has also served on the WHO Consultative Committee on Equity and Universal Health Coverage.
Before assuming his new position Professor Voorhoeve will be a visitor at the Political Theory group at Nuffield College, Oxford. He will also shadow and learn from Professor Stafford over the course of the next year in preparation for the role.
In the broadcasted message Professor Voorhoeve described LSE as his “intellectual home for two decades,” cultivating his “fruitful interdisciplinary collaborations in research, policy advising, and teaching”. Professor Voorhoeve emphasised he will “ensure LSE is a place where we hire and retain the world’s top social scientists,” and where LSE staff feel supported to work at their best.
LSE President Larry Kramer praised Professor Voorhoeve as an “exceptional scholar” and “dedicated School citizen” whose leadership will further improve academic staff experience. President Larry Kramer also thanked Professor Charles Stafford for his “dedicated and exceptional service” as VP and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Faculty Development.
