An organizational psychologist and psychometrician specializing in cross-cultural assessment in organizations, Assistant Professor Lina Daouk joined the Olayan School of Business in mid-September. Daouk finds AUB an “inspiring” place, and she likes “the way the promotion criteria are set; it is challenging and evokes productivity.”   

 Having completed her BS in psychology at AUB in 2002, Daouk went on to obtain her MS in organizational psychology at City University, London in 2004 and her PhD in psychometrics in 2009. The City University Psychology Department granted her a full scholarship and she received additional research funding from the Psychometrics Centre, Cambridge Assessment. Throughout her PhD work, Daouk taught psychometrics and research design and statistics to MS and doctoral students in different departments at City University, as well as in other universities around London. While in London, Daouk met her Finnish husband, who loved Lebanon so much that he wanted to live in this country, thus presenting Daouk with added incentive to return to work in her homeland.

This semester Daouk is teaching Organizational Behavior to two sections of undergraduate students. She thoroughly enjoys dealing with AUB students, whom she describes as “interactive, insightful, and expressive.” With “love for life” as her motto, Daouk likes research and teaching equally well; “they complement one another and both are important for my sense of duty towards my community,” she added. Daouk collaborated with organizations in both the public and private sectors of the United Kingdom and the Middle East for consultancy work in her areas of research: selection and recruitment, training and development, assessment in organizations, and leadership.