Dr. May Thet Nwe is a leadership scholar who earned her PhD from the University of Essex. Her PhD thesis investigated the phenomenon of leadership through the lens of identity and ideal. She is a qualitative researcher who used narrative inquiry research methodology for her doctoral research project. Prior to her PhD, she completed an MBA from the University of Portsmouth.

At Bournemouth University, she lectures on Organisational Leadership and is involved in teaching teams for Leadership Essentials, Managing People and Business Futures. Additionally, she supervises both undergraduate and postgraduate students in their research projects. Her previous academic appointment was at the University of Essex, where she was trained to become a Lecturer while doing her PhD, teaching Leadership and other Business Management subjects, such as Business Strategy, International Business Environments, etc, as an assistant lecturer.

Before embarking on her academic journey, she gained substantial experience in management and leadership from a young age, starting her career in a private tourism enterprise and then as marketing manager at a Hotel Group in Myanmar... She then served her native country as a gazetted officer at the Department of Road Transport Administration in Myanmar before pursuing an MBA in the UK. She worked at the Solent NHS Trust Headquarters in the UK until she started her PhD at the University of Essex. Beyond academia, she is a literary enthusiast with a number of short stories, poems, and articles ( nearly 50 in total) published in top magazines and journals in Myanmar.