Laura Mann is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics.

Her research focuses on the political economy of development, knowledge and technology. 

Her regional focus is East Africa (Sudan, Kenya and Rwanda) but she has also worked on collaborative research on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) in Asia. She is currently writing a book on the role of digital technologies in performing economic theory and facilitating transnational agricultural science, drawing on fieldwork in Kenya and California, USA. 

She is the recipient of an Economics and Social Research Council Research Grant (2018-2022), and has presented her work to academics and policy-makers all over the world including at events with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the World Trade Organisation, the European Parliament, and the UK Department of International Development. She convenes the African development specialism at the LSE, co-organises the department's Cutting Edge lecture series, and co-produces the student podcast, Citing Africa. 

email: l.e.mann[at]lse.ac.uk