Ambreen Ben-Shmuel

Ambreen Ben-Shmuel (she/her) is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Erb Institute for Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, where she studies how organizations navigate complex challenges when working across deep institutional divides. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, her research examines organizations operating at the intersection of sustainability and violent conflict, exploring how they develop innovative practices to enable cooperation despite significant political and structural constraints. She has received the Academy of Management Best Student Paper Award (2024) and the Sophie Davis Prize for best paper (2025), and has been supported by fellowships from the Harry S. Truman Institute (2019), the Azrieli Foundation (2021), and Lafer Center for Women's and Gender Studies (2020). She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and brings nearly two decades of practitioner experience with conflict resolution and environmental organizations to her academic work.