Prof. Jamila Alaktif (ISC Paris Business School) France

Jamila Alaktif is a professor at ISC Paris Business School of Management in France and a visiting professor at Stanford University. She has been collaborating with the France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies since 2019. Over the past few decades, diversity has become a key political concern resulting in a proliferation of management standards. Professor Alaktif analyzes the mechanism of these standards and their effects on diverse teams, with a focus on ethnic minorities and gender equality. Her research brings to point the organizational issues in a multi-level approach: the top executive managers, the middle management, and the employees. She has conducted numerous research studies with international scholars in France, the UK, Canada and now, the United States of America. She was a visiting scholar at the Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainable Development in Canada and San Diego State University, California. Jamila developed partnerships with worldwide companies and institutions to reflect on diversity and inclusion challenges at the political and organizational levels. Her book, entitled Migration and Climate Change: From the Emergence of Human Cultures to Contemporary Management in Organizations http://www.iste.co.uk/book.php?id=1640  explains the role of migration issues in climate change through a historical perspective and current companies’ commitments to achieving sustainable development goals including justice, reduced inequality, and decent work efforts.