Dr Nelia Hyndman-Rizk is a Senior Lecturer in Intercultural Management within the School of Business at UNSW Canberra. As an anthropologist, her interdisciplinary research and teaching interests include intercultural management, global teams, facilitation, conflict resolution, negotiation, and entrepreneurship. Her current research examines digital nomadism, global citizenship, and education, with expertise in the Middle East, Australian multiculturalism, and Bali, Indonesia. She completed her PhD at the Australian National University in 2010 with the thesis titled "At My Mother's Table: Migration, (Re)production and Return Between Hadchit, North Lebanon and Sydney".

In her academic career at UNSW Canberra, she was promoted to the position of Senior Lecturer in 2020. She teaches courses including ZBUS8318 Cross Cultural Management, ZBUS2206 Managing People Across Cultures, ZBUS3378 Entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Hyndman-Rizk has produced a significant body of scholarly work, including three monographs: "Lebanese Women at the Crossroads: Caught between Sect and Nation" published by Lexington Books in 2020, "Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation: Constructions of the Sacred and Secular in Late Modernity" by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2012, and "My Mother's Table: At Home in the Maronite Diaspora, A Study of Emigration from Hadchit, North Lebanon to Australia and America" by Cambridge Scholars Publishing in 2011. Her book chapters include "Women Home-Based Business Entrepreneurs in Iran: Navigating a Turbulent Era" (2024, Edward Elgar Publishing), "Women's Empowerment through Higher Education: The Case of Bangladesh" (2020, Emerald Publishing), "New Media/New Feminism(s): The Lebanese Women’s Movement Online and Offline" (2020, New York University Press), "Culture as Opportunity: Skilled Migration and Entrepreneurship in Australia" (2019, Springer), and "Masculinisation or Feminisation? Lebanese Emigration and the Dynamics of Arranged Cousin Marriages in Australia" (2017, Palgrave Macmillan). Additionally, she has published 15 journal articles and contributed to conferences. Her research has been cited 248 times according to Google Scholar.

Professional Email: n.hyndman-rizk@unsw.edu.au