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Dr Ahmad Al-Hiari

Job: Lecturer in Leadership and Management

Faculty: Business and Law

School/department: Leicester Castle Business School

Address: Hugh Aston 5.90 ºÚÁÏÍø, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH

T: +44 (0) 116 366 4686

E: ahmad.al-hiari2@dmu.ac.uk

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Personal profile

Ahmad is a Lecturer in Leadership and Management at ºÚÁÏÍø, and a , University of Sussex. Ahmad Co-chairs ºÚÁÏÍø's Staff Assembly since September 2022, where he works collaboratively with staff representatives and university leadership in developing cross-departmental cooperation. Ahmad is also the founder of the , which aims to bridge the gap between ºÚÁÏÍø’s research, policy practice, and real-world impact to achieve ºÚÁÏÍø's civic mission, facilitate societal benefits, and serve local communities. 

Ahmad started his career as a strategic planner in 2017 where he worked for the Greater Amman Municipality in Jordan. In 2019, Ahmad worked as a research assistant for the Local Governance Research Centre (LGRC) during his PhD studies at the Faculty of Business and Law, and later undertook another researcher role at BAL in 2021. In 2022, Ahmad taught in Business and Management at ºÚÁÏÍø, and later that year, he joined the University of Sussex to teach on their professional MA program in Corruption and Governance. Ahmad currently teaches Leadership, Ethics and HRM at the School of Leadership, Management and Marketing (LMM). Ahmad is also a Member of the International Sub-Committee at The Universities Policy Engagement Network (UPEN), and has extensive experience in interviewing senior policymakers and government executives. In May of 2023, . 

Throughout his work, Ahmad has conducted policy research across issues like decentralization, corruption, collaborative governance, and government stewardship. Specializing in Governance Reform and Policy Transfer, much of his research and Policy Engagement work has focused on investigating Policy Failure, and developing government capacity to respond to administrative challenges. Set against the background of the complex socio-political challenges that shape institutional change, Ahmad is particularly interested in investigating the effectiveness of western governance models when tested in informal and socially-influenced political systems such as in the Middle-East.

 

Research group affiliations

Institute for Responsible Business and Social Justice (Associate Member)

Centre for Local and Urban Studies (CLAUS)

Publications and outputs

Articles

 [ABS Level 2* Journal] 

 

Encyclopedia Entries

Research interests/expertise

Areas of teaching

  • Leadership
  • Corruption
  • Ethics
  • Human Resource Management

Qualifications

  • 2011 – 2017, BSc Architecture (2:1), German-Jordanian University
  • 2017 – 2018, MA Housing, Development & Urban Management, with merit, Leeds Beckett University
  • 2018 – 2022, PhD Public Sector Governance, ºÚÁÏÍø: “Jordanian Public Administration in Context: Reform Inertia, Wasta and Political Stewardship”, PhD by concurrent publication
  • 2023 – 2024, Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education (PGCertHE), University of Sussex

Courses taught

  • [Apprenticeship] Contemporary Business Issues (CORX3548)
  • Research Dissertation in Human Resource Management (BMHR5005)
  • Business Ethics, Sustainability & Social Responsibility (BHRM2006)
  • Learning and Organisational Development (BHRM2002)
  • Business Strategy in Action (BHRM3005)
  • Dissertation (LBPG5017)
  • Consultancy Project (ENTE5003)
  • Organisational Development and Consulting (HRMG3206)
  • Learning and Development (HRMG3207)
  • Globalisation and International HRM (HRMG3203)
  • HRM in the Workplace (HRMG2201)
  • Business Research Project (MARK5030)
  • Contemporary Business Issues (CORP3543)
  • Global Operations & Supply Chain Management (CORP2551)

Membership of external committees

Member of the International Sub-Committee,  (UPEN)

Member of the Midlands Team, (SEBP)

Membership of professional associations and societies

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

Fellow of The Institute of Leadership (FIoL)

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIHCM)

Professional licences and certificates

Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE)

Projects


The ºÚÁÏÍø Policy Unit, is an academic-led initiative that serves as the university's dedicated policy engagement and intelligence network. Building on ºÚÁÏÍø's role as the UN SDG 11 Hub Chair, the policy unit extends our commitment to sustainable communities by mobilizing research expertise to address complex international policy challenges. In so doing, the unit adopts a unique rapid-response philosophy that sets it apart from traditional policy engagement models. As a dynamic and agile network, the unit is designed to quickly mobilize expertise from across the university to address urgent policy challenges as they emerge. The “responsive” element of this network aims to place ºÚÁÏÍø at the forefront of emerging fast-moving issues (such as the Post-War Recovery & Reconstruction of Ukraine) to gradually position ºÚÁÏÍø as a trusted partner to policymakers seeking actionable expertise in real-time. Institutionally, what defines the unit is its structure as a collaborative network that brings together researchers from across ºÚÁÏÍø's Research & Innovation Institutes (RIIs) to build inter-disciplinary connections and knowledge-sharing around key international policy challenges, and enable ºÚÁÏÍø’s research community to leverage its collective intelligence to inform policy and drive meaningful change. In so doing, the ºÚÁÏÍø Policy Unit serves as the key interface between ºÚÁÏÍø's research community and the international policy arena. We are an outward-facing, entrepreneurial body dedicated to facilitating inter-university policy knowledge networks and building capacity for researchers and policy practitioners. 

 

Conference attendance

14 November 2024, "Empowering Through Policy-Led Imp