Staff

Lars Jaeger has over 30 years’ experience in the development and delivery of capital projects across higher education, arts and heritage and corporate sectors and joins LFS as Programme Director for the School’s planned relocation to London City Island. Having previously led in-house corporate real estate functions and delivered complex real estate and facility management projects and programmes for the Big 4 Consultancies and blue-chip corporates, Lars brings a wealth of experience and all-round perspective from both the customer and supplier viewpoints. Lars is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Chartered Architect and is actively engaged in the global debate on the changing culture of work and how new ways of working are impacting workplace design.

After a degree in Economics and a spell as an advertising copywriter Les Blair enrolled as a student at the London Film School. In 1969 he spent six months in Prague as an exchange student at FAMU where he made a short documentary about life under the Soviet bloc invasion which was shown by the BBC before being snatched back by the Czech authorities. On returning to London he produced and edited Mike Leigh’s first film Bleak Moments before launching his own career as a director with a string of films made for television which he wrote and directed after extended improvised rehearsal with the actors. He also directed the work of other writers, most notoriously G.F.Newman’s Law and Order which secured a place in television history with its portrayal of endemic corruption in the police and judicial system. His TV films News Hounds and The Accountant both won BAFTA’s for Best Single Drama. He has written and directed feature films for cinema including Bad Behaviour which won the Evening Standard Peter Sellers award for comedy. His work for the theatre includes Becket’s Waiting for Godot and two plays of his own.

Nicola worked at the BBC for 12 years as a Producer/Director on primetime series and programme strands in BBC Arts, Specialist Factual and Documentaries and as successful Development Producer. Her work has been nominated for a Grierson Documentary Award, a Royal Television Award and the highly acclaimed series ‘My Life As A Child’, won at five International Input Documentary Festivals. 

Her approach in all her work comes from her belief that documentary is ‘life shared on film’ and after leaving the BBC she worked in the independent sector for Ridley Scott Associates and the Garden. She then set up her own media company which made short films, radio documentaries and most recently creating animated documentaries. 

She is also an experienced and qualified documentary lecturer in Higher Education and a Fellow of the Higher Education Authority. She taught documentary making at City University for 7 years and has also been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of London Goldsmiths and Birkbeck.

Rachel has extensive experience in student/degree programme administration & funding. Supporting Registry in all areas of Admissions, Tier 4 visa, U.S. Federal Loans, Student Finance and leads enrolment/induction. She also works closely with our Awarding bodies to ensure onboarding and offboarding of students.

Loves cult horror films, hates romance.