Diana is an experienced organizational psychologist who has lived and worked throughout Europe, the U.S. and Asia. She has worked across different business sectors offering clients insights and advice on innovation management, open innovation, organizational design, decision-making, leadership and team effectiveness. Diana has a B.A. in Psychology and International Political Economy from the University of Bridgeport, CT (USA);  a M.A. in Advanced European Studies and International Relations from the Institut Européen des Hautes Etudes Internationales (F), a M.Sc. In Organization Studies from the University of Tilburg (NL) and a PhD in Management from the Rotterdam School of Management (NL).

She has worked as a management consultant in Germany, as an assistant professor in organizational psychology at the University of Groningen (NL), as a visiting researcher at the Kellogg School of Management (USA), and has held various marketing positions in New York and Nice (F). She is currently also working as a part-time Senior Lecturer in Organizational Psychology at the University of Groningen

Rashedur specializes in understanding the dynamic relationship between firms and marginalized stakeholders, conceptualizing how marginalized stakeholders influence firms, and how firms respond. Rashedur’s empirical works include research of access to low-cost HIV/AIDS medicines in South Africa, low-paid workers in Bangladesh, and mining activists in South Asia and the UK.

Prior to joining Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor), Rashedur received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. Currently he also holds a Batten Fellowship at the Batten Institute, Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia (UVA). Rashedur has been invited as a Visiting Scholar by various institutions, including INSEAD Business School, France; Darden, UVA; Faculty of Business and Economics, HEC Lausanne, Switzerland; School of Business and Economics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland; Department of Anthropology and Sociology, University of the Western Cape (UWC), South Africa; The Center for the Study of Democracy, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine; and Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley