Haina Zhang, Distinguished Professor, Business School, Sichuan University. She is also the Founder and Director of The Belt and Road Leadership Research Centre in the Business School, Sichuan University. She obtained PhD Degree from the University of Otago. She has extensive international working experiences especially in British Universities, such as the University of Glasgow, Lancaster University, and the University of Aberdeen. Prior to joining Sichuan University, she was a Professor in Management and Head of Business School at University of Aberdeen and later acted as Head of Campus of De Montfort University Kazakhstan. She had academic visits to Germany, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, Iceland, USA, Canada, Australia, Qatar and Hong Kong China.

Professor Haina Zhang’s main research areas are international management, leadership, organizational behavior, and human resource management. Her primary research focus is providing an ontological understanding of human practice in organizations and business through an interdisciplinary theoretical lens and methodological approach (i.e., integrating areas of philosophy, sociology, psychology, and business management). Proven leadership in the above research areas are witnessed by her editorial roles of high-impact journals. She had been Associate Editor of European Management Journal for a number of years and also served as the Co-Chair of the International Business and International Management Track and Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management in the past years. Her research findings have been published in a number of world-leading journals (ABS 4*/4, Financial Times Top 50 and ABDC A*/A), such as Journal of Management, Human Resource Management, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Journal of Business Ethics, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, and Technovation, among others.

Professor Haina Zhang is the Fellow of the U.K. Higher Education Academy. She has a wide range of international teaching experiences in UK, France, New Zealand, Qatar, Kazakhstan, among others. She had been supervisors for Bachelor, Master and PhD students while she worked in British universities, and also once acted as Director of PhD Program in the Department when she worked at Lancaster University. She was invited to be External Examiners for undergraduate and/or postgraduate programmes and PhD thesis by many well-known universities in the world. She was also a Judge for Global Case Writing Competition and acted as reviewers for text books by international publishing houses.

Research Areas:

International Management, Leadership, Human Resource Management, and Organizational Behavior