BIOGRAPHY

Dr Zhao Shasha is Associate Professor of International Business and Innovation in the Department of Strategy and International Business, Surrey University Business School, UK. She is an Associate of Centre for International Business and Development at Sussex University, Africa-Asia Centre for Sustainability at University of Aberdeen, and Centre for Social Innovation Management at Surrey University. She was a Visiting Research Fellow at Sussex University Business School in 2020. She previously held positions at University of London, among others. Her research focuses on multinational corporations’ innovation and R&D in and from emerging economies, and impact on social, environmental, and economic development.

Dr Zhao is Co-Founder and Co-Chair of Academy of International Business Sustainability Shared Interest Group (S-SIG). She is also one of four long-standing organizing committee member of CYGNA – a global women academics support network with over 300 members. Dr Zhao was part of the Inaugural Panel entitled: Investment in Sustainable Recovery, co-organized by Academy of International Business (AIB) and United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) to discuss research and policy implication for a more sustainable post-covid recovery. She was a speaker at the 7th World Investment Forum 2021 on Investment in Sustainable Development. She was also invited as a Keynote speaker at AIB Oceania Conference on Sustainable Development and International Business, 2021. Dr Zhao is Associate Editor of Asian Business and Management and Senior Editor of European Journal of International Management and an active editorial board member of Management International Review, and regular reviewer of several IB journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, British Journal of Management, International Business Review, Cross Cultural and Strategic Management, and Management and Organization Review. She has published in various elite journals, including Journal of World Business (ABS4), International Business Review (ABS3), Asia Pacific Journal of Management (ABS3), Human Resource Management Journal (ABS4), International Marketing Review (ABS3), Thunderbird International Business Review (ABS2) and Critical Perspectives on International Business (ABS2). She has also published in AIB UKI Palgrave Book Series. Dr Zhao is currently editing a Special Issue in International Business Review on the topic of: MNE Innovation for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals, and a Special Issue in AIB Insights on the topic of: Managing Sustainable Development in International Business. She also edited a Special Issue entitled: Do MNEs contribute to, or reduce inequality?, which has been published in Critical Perspectives on International Business.