Maria Correia is an Assistant Lecturer in Project Management at Coventry Business School and an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy/Advance HE in the UK. She holds an Executive MBA at distinction level, a BSc in Management and a UK equivalent MSc in Marketing. She is a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Strategic Engineering published by IGI Global. Her research has been focused on Sustainability Marketing, having presented her work in the UoN Research Conference 2018 and published an article on Sustainability in 2019. Other research interests include portfolio management and cross-cultural management. She has over fifteen experience in the retail banking industry, including diverse strategy and customer relationship management roles.