Alzira Salama

Dr Alzira Salama is a management consultant and a senior lecturer at the London campus of the European School of Economics (ESE), where she was Academic Director for four years. She trained as an organizational psychologist, gaining BSc and MSc degrees in psychology in her native Brazil, before moving to the UK to undertake research at Manchester Business School. She completed her PhD in Organizational Behaviour at Lancaster University. Dr Salama lectured for four years on MBA and other executive programmes in organizational behaviour, change, and HRM topics at Cranfield School of Management and she has also been a visiting researcher and lecturer at the European Business School (EBS) in London, where she delivered a comparative management module for Long Island University (N.Y.) MBA students. She has also lectured on the Summer School programme at the London School of Economics (LSE). Alzira Salama has been involved in action research projects and the preparation of case studies for classroom use in Europe and Brazil. She has published a number of case studies and journal articles, winning awards in the process, and delivered many conference papers. Some of the notable case studies developed by Dr Salama featured in her earlier book Privatization: Implications for Corporate Culture Change.