About
Gregory Unruh is a thought leader dedicated to helping businesses innovate and profit sustainably. A doctor of international technology and environmental management, Dr. Unruh is professor of global business at Thunderbird School of Global Management and director of the Lincoln Center for Ethics in Global Management. He is a noted writer, speaker and teacher in the areas of Business ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Sustainability, Energy and environment, Environmental sustainability, Technology and innovation management.
An outspoken advocate of environmental sustainability, ethics and corporate social responsibility, Dr. Unruh co-founded the Center for Eco-Intelligent Management along with William McDonough (renowned “green” designer) and also has served as a technical reviewer for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the group that shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former President Al Gore. Dr. Unruh contributed to the development by the United Nations of the “Principles for Responsible Management Education” which he presented to UN secretary general Bon Ki Moon in 2007 at the UN Palais des Nations in Geneva.
Before Thunderbird, Dr. Unruh was the IE Alumni Professor of Corporate Sustainability at the Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid. He also served on the faculty of Columbia University through Jeffrey Sach’s Earth Institute and at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, where he was interim director of the Center for International Environment and Resource Policy. Prior to his academic career, he spent eight years as an environmental consultant in California and northern Mexico.
Dr. Unruh has published numerous articles in Energy Policy, Journal of Business Strategy and the Environment, Journal of Economic Issues, Ecological Economics, and Journal of Environment and Development Economics. His recent articles include “The Biosphere Rules” in Harvard Business Review and “Managing Corruption, Not Ethics” in Thunderbird International Business Review. Most recently, Dr. Unruh published Earth, Inc., a business book on sustainability management from Harvard Business Press.
He has appeared on BBC radio and has been interviewed in popular media outlets such as BusinessWeek, Financial Times, the Boston Globe and the Spanish-language dailies Expansion, Diaro, ABC (Spain) and El Mercurio (Chile).
Dr. Unruh earned his Ph.D. in international technology and environmental management from the Fletcher School at Tufts University; his MA in international affairs and business from Schiller International University in Madrid and Paris; and his BS in the earth sciences from the University of California.
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