Dr. Ling Eleanor Zhang is an Associate Professor of Work and Human Relations. Her research focuses on interactions across boundaries - cultural, linguistic, geopolitical, and gender. She explores how these boundaries shape global mobility, organizational processes and employee experiences in globally dispersed organizations. Her teaching covers several topics in international business and human resource management, such as global mobility, the impact of geopolitics on organizations, multiculturalism, leadership and workplace diversity.
Ling has published her research in top academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management Journal, and Journal of World Business. She also disseminates her research findings through both academic and commercial book format to enhance their social impact. She is the lead-author of a book published in the Palgrave Studies in Chinese Management Series, which has been reviewed in International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management, Asia Pacific Journal of Human Resources, Journal of International Management and Asia Pacific Business Review. Her commercial book Spouses of the World: Bullet Dodging Behind Diplomatic Glamour has been widely endorsed by prominent politicians globally.
She earned her PhD from Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland, in 2015. She received the 2021 Emerging Scholar Award from Women in the Academy of International Business (WAIB). Before joining ESCP, she held academic positions at institutions including King’s College London.
At ESCP, Ling served as the Academic Director of the BSc in Management programme at the London Campus from 2022 to 2025. She co-founded CYGNA Supporting Women in Academia Network in June 2014.
