Diana Dakhlallah

As an economic sociologist, my research investigates the organisational foundations of government and of the political economy. My goal is to deliver insights that support the design of capable and impactful public sector organisations, and ultimately, of public sector ecosystems equipped to tackle the complex challenges we face as a society. Through quantitative methods like experiments, surveys, and large-scale data analysis, combined with fieldwork and other forms of deep qualitative research, I explore a range of questions. These questions touch on the social dynamics of organisational misconduct; how organisational actors think about productivity-misconduct trade-offs; how social incentives can be leveraged in the design of state institutions; and how government-directed efforts could be fashioned to spur the achievement of fundamental goals like health, development, and climate action.

I teach "Introduction to Organizational Behaviour" (MGCR 222, undergraduate) and "Designing for Causal Inference" (MGMT 709, PhD).