New PhD research fellows named

Research fellowships have been awarded to five sixth-year London Business School (LBS) PhD candidates who have demonstrated rigour and new insight in their areas of research.

The fellowships, first awarded this 2024-25 academic year, were established through generous gifts from Marwan Al Hamar, Alykhan Lalani and Kavit Handa YPSB2018.

The 2024-25 sixth-year PhD research fellows are:

• Jefferson Abraham (Accounting) - Socorro and Ramiro Lindado PhD Fellowship Award

• Guy Pincus (Economics) - Daed and Abdul Malik Alhamar PhD Fellowship Award

• Eva Lin (Organisational Behaviour) - Noorjehan Pirani PhD Fellowship Award

• Naireet Ghosh (Management Science and Operations) - Kavit Handa PhD Fellowship Award

• Keun Woo (Eric) Jeong (Strategy and Entrepreneurship) - AfCap PhD Fellowship Award

The recipients were selected for their clear potential to be placed in top business schools around the world.

Niro Sivanathan, Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Chair of LBS’s PhD programme, said: "I am delighted to have worked closely with our generous donors to share the wonderful research of our PhD candidates.

“As PhD Chair, it’s been my aim to leverage additional funding for the PhD programme and I am particularly pleased to have been involved in enabling this new funding support. I hope external investment and sponsorship continue to be developed in order to support the next generation of LBS researchers.”

The fellowships will together award five awards of £10,000 per year for five years to sixth-year PhD candidates.

The LBS PhD programme has also welcomed Yichen Yu and Chuka Dean Ezeoguine to its pre-doctoral programme.

They will support faculty in the Marketing and Management Science and Operations subject areas for two years.

Participants in the pre-doctoral programme work as research assistants on various projects and receive mentorship and support in preparation for their PhD studies at top global business schools.