Dr. Louise Lambert
Head of Happiness Research & Policy Design
HappinessMatters.org, Dubai
Dr Louise Lambert, PhD, is a Registered Psychologist (College of Alberta Psychologists, Canada), Researcher and Consultant with 20 years of experience in counselling, mental health, higher education and research, and primary healthcare. She has lived in the UAE for 10 years doing organizational and educational consulting, with clients such as Masdar, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, KAUST (KSA), Teacherly (UK), and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal). She is a prolific researcher in the field of wellbeing and has several peer-reviewed publications in positive psychology and the empirical strategies used to attain greater subjective wellbeing. Currently the Head of Happiness Programming and Policy Design with HappinessMatters.org, she is also the podcast host of “A world of wellbeing” in partnership with Gallup (Washington, DC) and the Global Wellbeing Initiative. Dr Lambert is the founder and Editor of the Middle East Journal of Positive Psychology, a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to regional wellbeing.