Our PhD Fellows
Khamael Al Safi
Khamael Al Safi is a PhD student at Bayes Business School. Her research interests include the development of new venture ideas, the emotional experiences of finance-seeking entrepreneurs and the entrepreneur’s first-person subjective perspective. Khamael completed her MSc degree in Organisations and Governance at the London School of Economics and her undergraduate studies in Human Resources and Psychology at Middlesex University Dubai. Before starting her PhD, she taught courses in Organisational Behaviour to undergraduate students at both Middlesex University Dubai and the University of Sharjah. She previously worked at McKinsey and Company, where she worked in developing training programs for board directors in the Middle East. She has worked in public sector advisory on building open and inclusive ecosystems at the Dubai node of the Open Data Institute.
Khamael Al Safi – Bayes Profile
Khodr Badih
Khodr is a second year PhD student working with Daniel Beunza, Santi Furnari and Aulia Syakhroza. His broad research interests concern Crisis Studies, in particular, looking at how a severe political and financial crisis in Lebanon induced a change in the energy sector in the country. Up to 2019, most Lebanese households were powered by diesel generators. After the 2019 crisis in the country which resulted in severe shortages in fuel, households were (forced) to switch to solar energy and thus the power solutions providers as well were forced to open large scale renewable energy departments. Khodr is studying this transition to renewables induced by the crisis.
Christopher Benoit
Christopher is a PhD Fellow at Bayes Business School. He holds an MSc in Management and Organisational Innovation from Queen Mary, University of London. His PhD and interest focus on why and how public sector organisations decide to adopt corporate social responsibility practices and discourse within their business practices and analyses the main affects produced by the adoption of being more socially responsible in society. Christopher’s PhD interest also looks at how the London Metropolitan police service uses the concept of corporate social responsibility as a strategy to build/repair confidence, trust, legitimacy, and reputation with society and in particular young adults. Christopher has over 10 years’ work experience in the public/private sector and is currently working with Barking and Dagenham Metropolitan police confidence and youth engagement teams to device strategies to better engage with young adults from different ethnic backgrounds.
Christopher Benoit – LinkedIn Profile
Dipshika Guha Majumdar
Dipsikha Guha Majumdar is a PhD student at the Bayes Business School, City University of London. She holds a MPhil and Masters degree in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, India and University of Pune. Her research interests are in areas of gender, caste, inequality, and entrepreneurship, especially in relation to marginalised communities. Before joining the PhD programme, Dipsikha has worked in the voluntary and CSR sector with NGOs and corporations in India. She has extensive grassroots experience of working with low-income, vulnerable communities, primarily involved in designing and implementing development interventions for low-income groups in collaboration with other stakeholders - community, state-level governance institutions, NGOs, international development organisations and corporations. She also completed a post-graduate certification in sustainable development and responsible leadership from the Swedish Institute, Stockholm.
Dipshika Guha Majumdar – Bayes Profile
Chiamaka Ibeh
Chiamaka Ibeh is a PhD student at Bayes Business School, working with Bobby Banerjee and Lauren McCarthy. Her research interests include climate change, corporate social responsibility, and indigenous community rights in a net-zero transition. Chiamaka completed her MBA at the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University and her undergraduate degree in Law at the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Before starting her PhD, Chiamaka worked with the American Business Council in Nigeria to create a Sustainability Committee for the Council and pioneered the publication of its first ever Sustainability Law Review. She has worked on improving Nigerian female smallholder farmers’ access to finance, storage facilities, and fair markets; also on implementing programmes that drive the sustainable production of agricultural commodities. She also served as a Co-Coordinator of the Lagos State Judiciary Backlog Elimination Programme (BEP), which saw the issuance of novel civil procedural rules to expedite court proceedings in the High Court of Lagos State, Nigeria. She is a Life Member of the Beta Gamma Sigma International Business Honor Society.
Chiamaka Ibeh LinkedIn Profile
Steven Mark Leroy
Steven “Steve” Mark Leroy is an Executive PhD student in Management at Bayes Business School, at City, University of London, UK. Working with Professors Jean-Pascal Gond and Santi Furnari, he examines whether and how ESG is implemented across the less scrutinised “private” institutional investment chain, from institutional investors over private debt and private equity firms down to portfolio companies.
Steve is also a business executive and consultant with a diverse experience in public affairs, communications, crisis & issues management, environmental, social & governance factors (ESG), business project management, legal, governance & compliance, acquired within multinational companies in food & drink, media and telecommunications. Prior to that, he worked as a lawyer in Brussels and as the Governor’s chief of staff in Antwerp.
Steve holds a Master’s degree in Law from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; a Master’s degree in Commercial & Consular Sciences from Hautes Etudes Commerciales St. Louis (Groupe ICHEC), in Brussels, Belgium; a full-time Master of Business Administration from INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France; and the specialised Master’s degree in EU Competition Law & Economics from the Brussels School of Competition, Belgium.
Steven Mark Leroy – LinkedIn Profile
Yousaf Nishat-Botero
Yousaf is a PhD Student at Bayes Business School, City, University of London. Before joining Bayes, he received an MA from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, with a dissertation on Jacques Lacan's 'The Function and Field of Speech and Language in Psychoanalysis' (1953). Yousaf’s PhD research focuses on questions of democratic economic planning and alternative organizing. This involves drawing attention to the organizational issues that underlie the economic planning debates, with a particular focus on issues of power, subjectivity, and knowledge in municipal efforts to develop alternative organizational economies. These interests are broadly aligned with critical management studies approaches, drawing primarily from critical theories of work, organization, and public governance.
Yousaf Nishat-Botero - Bayes Profile
Saeid Rahanjam
Saeid is a PhD student at Bayes Business School. Saeid’s research is focused on the concept of Hybrid Governance model and new Governance mechanism in the global context. For his PhD thesis he examines the Business-State interaction in politicizing for sustainable development and providing public good. Before Joining Bayes, Saeid completed a Master’s in Business and Finance in Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and a Master’s in International Business in Sharif University of Technology in Tehran.