Research Fellow, Dubai School of Government and Dubai Initiative
E-mail: May.aldabbagh@dsg.ae
Languages: Arabic, English
Specializations: gender, social and cross-cultural psychology, organizational behavior, Saudi Arabia, GCC 

Dr. May Al-Dabbagh is a research fellow at the Dubai School of Government in the area of gender and public policy. Her research interests include cross-cultural and social/organizational psychology; theory and method in assessing the relationship between the self and context; cultural and gender differences in leadership, decision-making, and job related outcomes.  

In 2004, she earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Oxford for her doctoral thesis entitled “Working Women in Saudi Arabia: A Study of Stress and Well-Being.” Her interdisciplinary thesis examined the psychological dynamics of work-related stress among women in the developing context of Saudi society.  Dr. Al-Dabbagh spent one year as a post-doctoral research fellow at the University of Oxford. She earned her B.A. degree from Harvard University, where she graduated in 1999 magna cum laude in Psychology.
 
Working Papers

March 2008
“The Context for Intergroup Leadership Among Women’s Groups in Saudi Arabia”