The history of public policy and public service has been at the heart of LSE since its inception. LSE was founded in 1895 “to understand the causes of things” and “for the betterment of society”. The original prospectus, from 1895, calls for “a further provision for systematic training in economic and political science, and the promotion of original investigation and research”. About 125 years later, there could be no better way to describe the mission of the School of Public Policy and strengths of our curriculums.