Meet the Lazaridis School's eight newest faculty members

July 24, 2025

The Lazaridis School of Business and Economics welcomed eight new tenure-track faculty members on July 1 to support our student experience and research priorities.

Get to know these researchers and their areas of expertise, and join us in welcoming our newest faculty members:

Dr. Saeid Bazmohammadi, Assistant Professor, Strategic Management

Academic and Career Background: Saeid Bazmohammadi earned his PhD in Management from the John Molson School of Business at Concordia University.

Research Interests: Dr. Bazmohammadi’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of executive leadership, corporate governance, and the relationship between organizations and capital market constituents. Specifically, his research investigates how social evaluations of corporate leaders impact multiple stakeholder groups and organizational outcomes.

Dr. Bazmohammadi’s current projects explore contexts, including shareholder activism and executive careers.

Dr. Monica Jain, Assistant Professor, Economics

Academic and Career Background: Monica Jain is joining the Economics Department from her current position as Principal Researcher in the Monetary Policy Analysis and Research division of the Financial Markets Department at the Bank of Canada.

Her work with Bank of Canada colleagues was awarded the 2025 Purvis Memorial Prize by the Canadian Economics Association. She holds an MA in Economics from the University of British Columbia, and a PhD from Queen’s University.

Research interests: Dr. Jain is an applied macroeconomist whose research and policy work has focused on a range of issues related to inflation, inflation expectations and central bank communications.

Dr. Chloe Kovacheff, Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management

Academic and Career Background: Chloe Kovacheff received her PhD from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where she also completed a SSHRC-funded post-doctoral fellowship.

Research Interests: Dr. Kovacheff studies how individuals and organizations navigate and respond to complex social issues like social inequity, environmental sustainability, physicial and mental health issues and political polarization.

Within these areas, some of the central topics she studies include invisible disabilities, morality, corporate social responsibility, behaviour change, and social movements.

Dr. Ju Young Lee, Assistant Professor, Strategic Management

Academic and Career Background: Ju Young Lee was a post-doctoral fellow at Ivey Business School, Western University, where he was part of the Innovation North research team. He earned his Ph.D. in Organization Studies from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College.

His dissertation was recognized as a finalist for the 2022 William C. Frederick SIM Best Dissertation Award.

Research Interests: Dr. Lee’s research adopts a systems lens, investigating the dynamic relationship between corporate strategy and sustainability, with a focus on how firms can create value for both business and society.

Dr. Nudrat Mahmood, Assistant Professor, Strategic Management

Academic and Career Background: Nudrat Mahmood earned her PhD in Strategic Management from the Schulich School of Business, York University. Dr. Mahmood's research has been published in FT50 Journal, Organization Science, and has been awarded recognitions such as the Best Paper award (Administrative Sciences Association Canada), the Track Best Paper award (European Academy of Management) and a nomination for the Best PhD Paper Prize (Strategic Management Society).

Research Interests: Her research lies at the intersection of strategy, innovation and organization, with a particular focus on the digital economy. Her most recent work advances understanding of platform governance and its critical role in shaping value co-creation within innovation ecosystems, offering insight into how platform firms manage ecosystem activity in an increasingly platform-driven global economy.

Dr. Eric Wilson, Assistant Professor, Finance

Academic and Career Background: Eric Wilson received his PhD in Finance from McMaster University. Prior to pursuing his doctorate, he created a quantitative commodities hedge fund and worked at National Bank Financial in Mergers and Acquisitions.

He won the Best Paper Prize at the 2024 Annual Society for Financial Econometrics meeting and was a finalist for the Bank of Canada Graduate Student Paper Award workshop.

Research Interests: Dr. Wilson’s research interests broadly lie in asset pricing with an emphasis on derivatives, hedge funds, investor behavior and return predictability. Specifically, he explores to what extent we can gain new insights into empirical asset pricing from studying hedge fund returns.

Dr. Yi Yin, Assistant Professor, Marketing

Academic and Career Background: Yi Yin earned her PhD in Marketing from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Before joining Laurier, she was a faculty member at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. She received the AMA Winter Academic Conference Best Overall Paper Award in 2024.

Research interests: Dr. Yin's research explores how marketing intersects with broader societal and financial systems, with a focus on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) issues, advertising strategies, and the marketing-finance interface.

Dr. Xinyuan Zhang, Assistant Professor, Operations and Decision Sciences

Academic and Career Background: Xinyuan Zhang holds a PhD in Management Science from the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia.

Research Interests: Dr. Zhang’s research focuses on data-driven decision-making, with an emphasis on applying statistical learning and stochastic control methods to service operations and revenue management.

His recent work explores how to improve operational and business decisions in complex information-sharing environments, including settings affected by misinformation and strategic behaviours. His research has been published in prestigious journals such as the FT50 publication, Operations Research.

Learn more about our faculty members by exploring our Lazaridis Faculty page.