Reimara Valk MSc, MA, PhD

Dr. Reimara Valk is an Assistant Professor of Management, at American University in Dubai (AUD), United Arab Emirates. Dr. Valk has over 10 years of teaching and research experience in the fields of Business, Human Resource Management, Organizational Behaviour, Global Mobility, and more recently, Food Science, Nutrition, Health, and Disease. She has previously worked in academic and non-academic positions for for-profit and non-profit organizations in multicultural, global work environments in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Australia, China, India, Malaysia, and Iraq.

Dr. Valk’s research interests are in global mobility and sustainable careers, employee engagement and well-being, happiness, nutrition, and public health. She has published her research in international peer-reviewed journals, such as the International Journal of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Management, the Journal of Global Mobility, Employee Relations, and the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Additional publications include book chapters, conference papers, and practitioner magazine articles. Dr. Valk has presented her research on topics, such as global career mobility, employee engagement and wellbeing, happiness, nutrition, cardiology, and gastroenterology at various international conferences across the globe. She has won several awards for journal articles and conference papers and has obtained various research funds.