Leila Alinaghian

Leila Alinaghian is an Associate Professor and Director of Postgraduate Programmes at the UCL School of Management. She is recognised for excellence in educational leadership and teaching, as well as for scholarship with impact. Over the past decade, she has delivered strategic growth, academic innovation, and consistently outstanding student experience and outcomes in postgraduate education. Leila’s research advances understanding of business relationships and networks, particularly their role in sustainability and social impact, and has been published in world-leading and internationally excellent journals. She has worked with corporates, social enterprises, and intermediaries/professional bodies to advance the social-procurement agenda in the UK and internationally. She has also supervised several doctoral students to completion, developed thought leadership, and spoken at numerous forums.

Leila Alinaghian focuses on Sustainability, Social Procurement, and Social Impact and Sustainable Supply Chain Management. Her research explores the intersection of corporate governance, supply chain risks, and dynamic capabilities. She investigates how collaborative interorganizational relationships influence supply chain sustainability and how network structural properties affect firm performance. Alinaghian also examines the role of cognitive capital in supply chain resilience, particularly during crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. Her work emphasizes the strategic design of sustainable supply networks and the business case for continuous manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industry. She contributes to understanding how social enterprises manage business relationships and how board-level corporate social responsibility committees impact corporate social responsibility performance.