Zainab Fakhr

Dr Zainab Fakhr is a Senior Lecturer in Management at London Metropolitan University's Guildhall School of Business and Law. She holds a Doctorate in Business Administration focusing on gender dynamics in Pakistani higher education. Her research employs feminist methodologies to examine societal barriers faced by female academics in conservative environments, with a particular emphasis on gender inclusion, cross-cultural contexts, and organizational power structures.

• Teaching: Undergraduate/postgraduate courses in management, leadership, entrepreneurship, and business
• Supervision: Advises undergraduate and postgraduate research students

Her work addresses critical issues like work-life conflict in Pakistan's banking sector, employee turnover in academia, and gendered institutional biases. She has presented at international conferences including Innogend (Poland) and Emerald-published forums. As a Benazir Bhutto Scholarship recipient, her scholarship focuses on underrepresented groups in professional environments.

Research interests span gender studies, diversity management, and cross-cultural organizational behavior. Publications appear in journals like Public Management and World Applied Sciences Journal.