Dr Lamees Tanveer is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Social Entrepreneurship at King’s Business School and Associate Director of the Social Innovation Lab for Human Flourishing (SILF) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). She holds a PhD in Organisational Behaviour from LSE and teaches postgraduate courses in Entrepreneurial Leadership and High-Tech Entrepreneurship & Commercialisation.

Her research examines how purpose-driven organisations design work that enables learning, inclusion, and well-being, and how these principles can be scaled to create more equitable systems of work. Positioned at the intersection of social entrepreneurship, organisational behaviour, and technology, her work explores how people create meaning and agency in constrained environments and how innovation can extend these processes to advance gender equity.

She is the founder of Firmly, an LSE spin-out supported by the Knowledge Exchange and Impact Fund and the LSE Innovation Fund. Firmly develops AI-powered data systems that help organisations assess and improve women’s workplace experiences and leadership pathways. By providing evidence-based tools to advance women into management and decision-making roles, Firmly contributes directly to SDG 5: Gender Equality and the future of inclusive, tech-enabled work.

Dr Tanveer has collaborated with organisations and social enterprises in emerging markets, including BRAC (Bangladesh), Gyan Shala (India), and the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (Nigeria), to generate field evidence that informs practice and policy on women’s work and leadership. Her research on women entrepreneurs in Nigeria, published in Organization Science, examines how women build resilience and well-being in developing contexts.

Before joining King’s, she taught on the MSc Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme at LSE and worked with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) on the Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Programme.

Her work bridges research and practice to show how equity, technology, and innovation can jointly reshape the future of work, creating organisations in which people, and particularly women, can thrive and lead.

Dr Tanveer is not currently accepting new PhD students.