Nada is currently Professor in Management and Business Research at the University of Northampton, Business School. Previously, she held the position of Senior Research Fellow at the Cranfield School of Management. Before entering academia, Nada was a Senior Information Technology Officer with the Australian Public Services Department of Employment, Education and Training. She has worked for international organisations in Scandinavia, the Middle East and North Africa, as well as for the Canadian Federal Government. She has a BSc in Mathematics and Computing, a Graduate Diploma in Management Sciences, a Masters Degree in Public Administration at the University of Canberra (Australia), and has earned her PhD in Management at the University of Western Sydney - Nepean (Australia).

Nada has co-authored seven books (with Andrew Kakabadse), Leadership in Government: Study of the Australian Public Services (1998), Essence of Leadership (1999), Creating Futures: Innovative Applications of IS/IT (2000), The Geopolitics of Governance (2001), Smart Sourcing (2002), Intimacy (2004) and CSR in Practice: Delving Deep (2007). She has contributed 48 chapters to international volumes and has published over 100 scholarly articles.

Research Interests

Current areas of interest focus on the addictive effect of ICT, diversity, governance, CSR, leadership and boardroom effectiveness, leadership and governance of governments, and strategic sourcing.

Publications

Professional Activity

Professor in Management & Business Research

Responsibilities

She is co-editor of the Corporate Governance: The International Journal of Business in Society and Journal of Management Development. Nada and her co-authors won the William E. Mosher and Frederick C. Mosher Award for the best article written by an academician in the journal of Public Administration Review (PAR) in 2003 as well as bet paper of the year in the Journal of Managerial Psychology (JMP) in 1998.