Dr Ioanna Boulouta

Overview

Biography

Ioanna Boulouta is a Lecturer in Management. Her research interests lie in the areas of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability. She is particularly interested in how organisations create and communicate social and environmental value and how this can bring strategic benefits for businesses and nations. She is also interested in how governance mechanisms influence sustainability outcomes. Her interdisciplinary work spans strategy, marketing and human resource management disciplines.

Before joining Birkbeck, she was a PhD student at the University of Cambridge where she was involved as a research assistant in large European Union funded projects such as within the FP7, NearCO₂ project examining public perceptions of environmental technologies during sustainability transitions. She has also held research and teaching assistantship positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, London School of Economics and the London Business School. She has work experience as a researcher and project manager in many countries around the world (UK, USA, Greece, Netherlands, Belgium, India, and Nepal). She has also been a research fellow at NATO working in Technology Policy issues at the private office of Secretary General. 

Qualifications

• PhD in Management, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK
• MPhil Technology Policy, Cambridge-MIT Institute, University of Cambridge, UK
• BEng Electronic Engineering, University of Kent, UK
• Certificate in Teaching with AI, Harvard Business Impact
• Certified Carbon Literacy Trainer, Carbon Literacy Trust

Administrative responsibilities

• Director, Birkbeck's Responsible Business Centre
• Programme Director, MSc International Business Management
• School Lead for United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME)

Professional activities

Professional memberships

• British Academy of Management 

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK

Honours and awards

• Invited Keynote speech at ‘Help to Grow’ Annual Event, Brunel Business School and Birkbeck Business School,
• Invited judge, ESG Investing Awards, UK,
• Best Student Paper Award, Social Issues in Management Division, Academy of Management (AOM), USA,
• Scholarship Award, British Federation for Women Graduates, UK,
• Scholarship Award, Cambridge European Trust, EU,
• Scholarship Award, EPSRC, UK,

Research

Research interests

• Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability Strategy
• Greenwashing and Organisational Trust
• Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability and National Competitiveness
• The Ethics of Care and Empathy in Corporate Responsibility Strategy
• Corporate Social and Environmental Performance and Board Gender Diversity

Research overview

Dr Boulouta's research interests lie in the areas of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Strategy. She is particularly interested in how organisations create and communicate social and environmental value and how this can bring benefits for businesses and nations. She is also interested in how governance mechanisms (such as board diversity) influence sustainability outcomes. Her interdisciplinary work spans strategy, marketing and human resource management disciplines.

Research Centres and Institutes

• Director, Responsible Business Centre

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

I welcome enquiries from prospective PhD students who are interested in undertaking research in any of my areas of research interest in Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability Strategy.

Teaching

 

Executive Education Courses:

• Net-Zero Accelerator for SMEs, Birkbeck Executive Education program
  
• Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility, Sofia University, Japan

Teaching modules

• Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability
• Introduction to Corporate Responsibility
• PG Dissertation Preparation

Publications

Business and community

Outreach

Services

• Other
  

  Expert Advisor at the project ‘Contours of Organizational Fairness’ by the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), UK.

• Other
  

  Expert Advisor in Sustainability Strategy to the CEO of Athens’ Urban Transport Organization (OASA S.A.) , Greece

• Other
  

  Invited Judge, ESG Investing Awards