Michalle E. Mor Barak

Michàlle Mor Barak, PhD, is a professor at the University of Southern California (USC) with a joint appointment at the School of Social Work and the Marshall School of Business. She holds the Lenore Stein-Wood and William S. Wood Chair of Social Work and Business in a Global Society, serves as the Director of the Doctoral Program and Chairs of the USC Social Work and Business Program. Professor Mor Barak has received awards of distinction, including a Fulbright award, the Lady Davis award for international exchange scholars, the University of California Regents Award, and the Franklin C. Sterlin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. She has been invited to give keynote addresses at national and international gatherings such as the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Global Inclusion Conference and the Women’s Global Forum on the Economy and Society. She received grants to lead several prestigious conferences around the world, including the Rockefeller Foundation’s grant to lead an international conference on global workforce diversity in Bellagio, Italy, and the Borchard Foundation’s grant to lead a global think tank of scholars on diversity management at the Chateau de la Bretesche, France. A principal investigator on several large research projects, she has published extensively in the areas of global diversity and inclusion, work-life balance and organizational social work and has authored three books, Social Networks and Health (Garland, 1991) Social Services in the Workplace (Haworth, 2000) and Managing Diversity: Toward a Globally Inclusive Workplace (first edition, 2005; second edition, 2011, third edition, 2013).