There are many leading scholars associated with the centre, in a range of subjects including geography, history, law, literature, politics and science.

The Centre is part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies.
Co-directors
- Prof Tariq Jazeel (Geography)
- Dr Jagjeet Lally (History)
Associated staff
- Dr Pushpa Arabindoo (Geography)
- Dr Jyoti Belur (Security and Crime Science)
- Dr Zoltán Biedermann (SELCS, Spanish & Latin America)
- Prof Anthony Costello (Institute for Global Health)
- Dr Natasha Eaton (History of Art)
- Prof Margot Finn (History)
- Dr Mark R. Frost (History)
- Dr Lu Gram (Institute for Global Health)
- Dr Andrew Harris (Geography)
- Prof Sarah Hawkes (Institute for Global Health)
- Dr Sushrut Jadhav (Psychiatry)
- Dr Sarah Jasim (Institute of Epidemiology & Health)
- Dr Ilan Kelman (Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction)
- Prof Monica Lakhanpaul (UCL GOS Institute of Child Health)
- Prof Marie-Carine Lall (UCL Institute of Education)
- Prof Georgina Mace (Genetics, Evolution & Environment)
- Dr Lucia Michelutti (Anthropology)
- Dr Joanna Morrison (Institute for Global Health)
- Dr David Osrin (Institute for Global Health)
- Dr Priti Parikh (Dept of Civil, Environ &Geomatic Eng)
- Prof Christopher Pinney (Anthropology)
- Dr Naomi Saville (Institute for Global Health)
- Dr Tanya Sengupta (Bartlett School of Architecture)
- Dr Julia Shaw (Institute of Archaeology)
- Dr Kartikeya Tripathi (Department of Security and Crime Science)
- Prof Phiroze Vasunia (Greek and Latin)
- Dr Zoha Waseem (Institute for Global City Policing)
- Dr Punam Yadav (Institute for Risk & Disaster Reduction)
- Dr Farniyaz Zaker (Institute of Advanced Studies)
Research students
Vindhya Buthpitiya (Anthropology)