Mei Schulte

Mei is currently enrolled as a PhD student at Heriot Watt’s Dubai Campus. Her research interests pertain to sustainability, CSR, systems thinking, paradoxical cognition, supply chain transparency and strategic management. Supervised by Dr. Dimitris Christopoulos and Dr. Marlene Muller, the PhD research revolves around the wicked problem of sustainability.  More specifically, the study deploys a mixed methodology to investigate how corporations can leverage systems thinking to operationalise sustainability strategies aimed at reducing risk, under what conditions these strategies are most effective and how corporations can manage paradoxical tensions and any subsequent change within the system. 

Background

Mei has been living and working in Dubai for the past decade and is currently employed as a PMP-certified project manager. Never one to turn down a learning opportunity, she holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, a postgraduate qualification in International Management, a postgraduate  qualification in China Business Studies, an MBA in Operations and Logistics and an MSc in Applied Business Research. Driven by curiosity and inspired by a passion for research, she has published papers focussed on sustainability, supply chain transparency, ethical consumerism and human rights issues in the diamond industry.