Current visiting fellows
Hans Kundnani
Hans Kundnani is an Open Society Ideas Workshop fellow and a visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics.
He was previously the director of the Europe programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), a senior Transatlantic fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations. He has also been a visiting fellow at the Remarque Institute at New York University, the New School, and Göttingen University. He has taught at Boston University, New York University and the Collège d’Europe.
Hans is the author of three books: Eurowhiteness. Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project (London: Hurst, 2023); The Paradox of German Power (London/New York: Hurst/Oxford University Press, 2014), which has been translated into German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish; and Utopia or Auschwitz. Germany’s 1968 Generation and the Holocaust (London/New York: Hurst/Columbia University Press, 2009).
Hans is a columnist for the New Statesman and also writes for other publications such as Dissent, the Times Literary Supplement, Foreign Affairs and Internationale Politik. He studied German and philosophy at Oxford University and journalism at Columbia University in New York, where he was a Fulbright Scholar.
Stephen Gelb
Stephen Gelb is an independent development economist currently based in London. He worked in South Africa for thirty years, researching macroeconomics and growth, foreign investment, and political economy and inequality, and advising the Presidency, the Treasury and public sector organisations. He was Principal Research Fellow and Lead, Private Sector Development, at ODI Global in London from 2016-22. He has taught graduate economics, political science and development studies in South Africa, Canada, the US and Switzerland, and has extensive research experience across Africa and Asia. He has written on foreign direct investment and value chains in Asia and Africa, on social and governance policies of multinational corporations, and on migration, remittances and diaspora finance.
