Faiza Ali, PhD, is an Associate Professor at the Suleman Dawood School of Business (AACSB accredited), Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) since 2016. She is also serving as the Associate Dean of Research and Scholarship at the same school since 2022.
Dr Ali obtained her PhD in Management from Macquarie University, Australia in 2013. Prior to joining LUMS, she worked at Liverpool John Moores University (2015-16), UK as a senior lecturer in Business Management, and at the University of Kent (2011-15), UK as a lecturer in organizational behavior.
Dr Ali is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy (UK) and Academic Member of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), UK. Her research interests include diversity management, gender equality and cross-cultural management. Her research has been published in several high-quality journals, such as Journal of Business Ethics, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Gender, Work and Organization, and International Journal of Human Resource Management.
Dr Ali attended the Global Colloquium for Participant Centered Learning (2018) at Harvard Business School (HBS). She also attended Directors Training Program (DTP) at LUMS (2020) which is endorsed by the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP). Dr Ali has provided executive training to several public and private sector organizations (such as the Packages Group, Punjab Irrigation Department, Pakistan Petroleum Limited) on topics related to leadership, organizational behavior, and diversity management.
Dr Ali is the current chairwoman (2022-25) of the Gender, Race and Diversity in Organizations (GRDO) special interest group at European Academy of Management (EURAM). She also co-founded and has been organizing the annual International Gender, Work and Society (GWS) conference at LUMS since 2017.
Dr Ali has experience of leading international grant projects. Currently she is completing an Erasmus + (EU) project as a PI from LUMS with other international and local partner universities. She is also a PI from LUMS at a British Council grant on gender equality in academia.
