Mei Panter

Mei Panter is a Provost-Fellow at Heriot-Watt University specialising in corporate sustainability, strategy and systems thinking. She holds qualifications in Marketing, International Business, China Business Studies and Business Research, as well as an MBA and PhD in Management focused on ESG disclosure and integration among UAE-listed firms. Before academia, she spent 15 years in industry, including as an operations director in the international diamond trade and managing large-scale workforce projects in the UAE. She has taught Project Management at Middlesex University Dubai and currently teaches International Business at Heriot-Watt University Dubai. Her research spans supply chain transparency and ethical consumerism in the diamond trade  and systems thinking and ESG.