Maria Farkas
Senior Lecturer, Academic Lead, Culture and Inclusion; Imperial Business School
- Maria Farkas is Academic Lead Culture and Inclusion at Imperial Business School. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Business Administration and Sociology and a B.A. in English and Economics from Wellesley College. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Maria was a Research Associate at the Harvard Business School where she wrote several case studies and teaching notes about leadership and inclusion. Maria specializes in teaching leadership skills with a focus on diversity and inclusion. She founded and teaches the award winning course Working in Diverse Organizations which equips students with practical skills to thrive in work environments diverse in regard to skills, expertise, problem solving approaches, ethnicity, religion, and many other social identities. Maria consults on inclusion for a variety of organizations, creates associated teaching materials, and runs an annual workshop for women academics at the annual Academy of Management Conference
Anju Mary Paul
Professor of Social Research and Public Policy, New York University Abu Dhabi
- Anju Mary Paul holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration (First Class Honors) from the National University of Singapore, a Master's in Journalism from New York University, and a PhD in Sociology and Public Policy from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She is an international migration scholar with research interests that include emergent migration patterns, particularly to, from, and within Asia and the Middle East. She is the award-winning author of Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market (Cambridge University Press 2017) and Asian Scientists on the Move: Changing Science in a Changing Asia (Cambridge University Press 2021). She is also the editor of Local Encounters in a Global City (Ethos Books 2017). Prior to joining NYU Abu Dhabi, Paul served as an inaugural faculty member at Yale-NUS College in Singapore for 10 years.
Everett Peachey
Director; Quality of Life Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Support Unit; Aga Khan Development Network
- Since 2022, Everett has been the Director of the Quality of Life Unit, a strategic initiative of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN). The AKDN is a network of nine development agencies working in concert to improve the quality of life for the most marginalised communities in selected regions of the world, notably in Central and South Asia, the Middle East, and East Africa. The Quality of Life Unit provides research, evidence, and recommendations for executive leadership for the purposes of strategy and program development and to better understand AKDN’s programmatic impact and contribution to change in core geographies. The Unit also provides technical research support and capacity building to the monitoring and evaluation teams across the Network. In addition to the PhD in Public Policy and Sociology from Michigan, Everett also holds an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School (Tufts University) and a B.A. in International Relations (The College of Wooster). He has lived and worked in five foreign countries, including Switzerland, where he is based.
Zheng Mu
Assistant Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore
- Zheng Mu is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She is also affiliated with the Centre for Family and Population Research (CFPR) at NUS as a faculty associate. Mu's research interests include marriage and family, fertility, ethnicity, migration, subjective well-being, child development, quantitative methods, and mixed methods. Her research examines trends, social determinants, and consequences of marriage and family behaviors, with a special focus on how marriage and family serve as inequality-generating mechanisms. Mu's ongoing research projects study how migration, ethnicity, interactions between gender and intergenerational inequality, and interactions between ideational and socioeconomic contexts shape individuals’ time use patterns, family experiences, and well-being in China and Singapore.
