Gail Whiteman is Associate Professor at the Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), Erasmus University.  She has a PhD from Queen’s School of Business in Canada.  Whiteman is co-founder and the Director of the Sustainability and Climate Research Centre at RSM.  The broad objectives of the SCR Centre are to reach a clearer understanding of the management challenges posed by climate change and to identify effective management practices in multinational companies to contribute to climate adaptation and mitigation. 

Her research on sustainability has been published in leading management and ecology journals, including the Academy of Management Journal, Nature, Ecology & Society, Organization Studies, Business Strategy & The Environment, Journal of Business Ethics, Organization & The Environment, Journal of Management Inquiry, Ambio: A Journal of the Human Environment, Human Relations, International Journal of Business Ethics, Qualitative Research in Management and Organization, as well as numerous book chapters.  Media coverage includes The Wall Street Journal (European Edition), Business Week, Yahoo Finance, European Management Journal, Greenbiz, Climatebiz, Reuters.co.uk, BBC Radio Scotland, Ode Magazine, AD Rotterdam, TV Rijnmond, and the BBC Radio World Service. 

Before entering academia, Whiteman was an Account Director and brand manager in a variety of corporate communications and marketing companies.  She has dual citizenship: British and Canadian.

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Prof. Dr. Gail Whiteman