Samir Sweida-Metwally is a Postdoctoral Associate at New York University Abu Dhabi. He holds a PhD in Advanced Quantitative Methods from the University of Bristol (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council—ESRC); an M`Sc in Comparative Social Policy from the University of Oxford (funded by the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies); an MSc in Political Theory from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); and a BSc (Hons.) in Economics from Brunel University. He is trilingual in English, Arabic, and French.

Sweida-Metwally’s research unfolds in two interlinked strands: one delineating macro-level disparities in labor market access and job quality and unpacking the meso-level organizational processes that sustain them, and another developing theoretical frameworks of Islamophobia—and experimentally testing how those biases operate within workplace settings.

Drawing on original data collection and experiments—funded by competitive grants—and observational data, he:

• Measures job quality and investigates barriers to employment access; 

• Examines workplace bullying, analyzing how factors such as gender and ethnicity influence its disclosure, and how organizational practices facilitate or hinder such reporting;

• Investigates manager attitudes toward religious accommodations and breastfeeding support for working mothers; and

• Develops conceptual frameworks that advance the conceptualization of Islamophobia, and experimentally tests how it manifests in organizational settings.

Sweida-Metwally's research has been ranked in the top 2% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric. He has been interviewed on TV about his research, which has also garnered attention from national and international media outlets, including The Guardian in the UK and The National in the UAE.

In addition to his academic training, Sweida-Metwally holds a Diploma in Islamic Studies and is pursuing a Shahādah ‘Ālimiyyah (Licence in Islamic Scholarship).

Prior to joining academia, Sweida-Metwally worked in the private sector in the UK and the UAE. Overall, he has over 14 years of strategic advisory and research experience. This includes offering C-Suite strategic guidance to Dubai-headquartered multinational corporations. Sweida-Metwally continues to operate in this field as a consultant, advising multinational companies on Islamophobia in the workplace.