Leila Alinaghian is an Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Programmes at the UCL School of Management.

Leila is recognised for excellence in educational leadership and teaching, as well as for scholarship with impact. Over the past decade, she has delivered strategic growth, academic innovation, and consistently outstanding student experience and outcomes in postgraduate education. Leila’s research advances understanding of business relationships and networks, particularly their role in sustainability and social impact, and has been published in world-leading and internationally excellent journals. Leila has worked with corporates, social enterprises, and intermediaries/professional bodies to advance the social-procurement agenda in the UK and internationally. She has also supervised several doctoral students to completion, developed thought leadership, and spoken at numerous forums.

Before joining UCL, Leila was a Professor at Cranfield School of Management, where she served as Director of the MBA and MiM programmes and led substantial programme transformation and achieved measurable gains in student satisfaction and global rankings. Earlier, she was part of the University of Cambridge Centre for International Manufacturing’s strategy team, contributing case-based research supporting the EPSRC Centres for Innovative Manufacturing. She also founded and led the Research Capability Development programme at the Institute for Manufacturing, University of Cambridge.

Leila holds an MPhil and a PhD in Engineering, Manufacturing and Management from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Cambridge Trust Scholar. Her research was nominated for best PhD research and best paper awards at the Academy of Management and the Strategic Management Society.

Leila is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Cranfield University.

View Professor Leila Alinagian’s work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5OmvFPIAAAAJ&hl=en