Ian Mitroff Ian Mitroff

Ian I. Mitroff is a professor at Alliant International University in San Francisco and visiting professor/senior investigator at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California Berkeley. In addition, he is an adjunct professor of Health Policy at the School of Public Health at Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Missouri.

Mitroff is Professor Emeritus from the University of Southern California (USC), where he was the Harold Quinton Distinguished Professor of Business Policy at the Marshall School of Business. He is the president of the consulting firm Comprehensive Crisis Management.

Mitroff is regarded as one of the founders of the discipline of Crisis Management. He founded and directed the USC Center for Crisis Management.

Known for his thinking and writing on a wide range of business and societal issues, Mitroff is the author of 26 books, including “A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America,” “Smart Thinking for Crazy Times,” “The Essential Guide to Managing Corporate Crisis,” “The Unbounded Mind,” and “Managing Crises Before They Happen.”

His PhD is in engineering science and social science philosopy from Berkeley. He is a fellow of The American Psychological Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Management. He has an honorary PhD from the faculty of social sciences at the University of Stockholm. He is the recipient of a gold medal from the United Kingdom Systems Society for his lifelong contributions to understanding complex problems.

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Corporate Governance in the Context of Crises: Towards a Stakeholder Theory of Crisis Management
Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, 2009