Dr.
Ian Mitroff is Professor Emeritus at the Marshall School of
Business and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University
of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is an Adjunct Professor
of Health Policy in the School of Public Health at St. Louis
University, and a University Professor at Alliant International
University in San Francisco. He is also a Visiting Professor
at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the Haas School
of Business, University of California, Berkeley.
is the president and founder of Comprehensive Crisis Management,
a private consulting firm based in Oakland, California, that
specializes in the treatment of human-caused crises, and a Senior
Investigator with the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management
at the University of California, Berkeley.
Dr. Mitroff has published over 250 papers and articles and
over 25 books on crisis management, business policy, corporate
culture, contemporary media and current events, foreign Affairs
and nuclear deterrence, organizational change, organizational
psychology and psychiatry, the philosophy and sociology of science,
public policy, scientific method, spirituality in the workplace,
and strategic planning. He is a member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He is a Fellow of the Academy
of Management and the American Psychological Association. He
is a member of the editorial boards of several management and
social science journals.
In 1992-1993, he was President of the International Society
for the Systems Sciences. In September 2000, he was awarded
an Honorary Doctor’s degree from the Faculty of Social
Sciences of the University of Stockholm. In September 2006,
he was awarded a gold medal by the UK Systems Society for his
life-long contributions to systems thinking.
In 1986, Dr. Mitroff founded the USC Center for Crisis Management
in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern
California. Dr. Mitroff directed the Center for ten years. The
principal mandate of the USC Center for Crisis Management was
to study human-caused crises and develop state-of-the-art tools
to better manage them. Under the direction of Dr. Mitroff and
with the support of the USC Graduate School of Business and
major corporations, the Center became an acknowledged national
and international leader in the field of Crisis Management.
Comprehensive Crisis Management was founded in 1995 by Dr. Mitroff.
To find out more about Dr.Mitroff go to: www.mitroff.net
Education
BS - University of California at Berkeley, Engineering Physics
MS - University of California at Berkeley, Structural Mechanics/Engineering
PhD - University of California at Berkeley, Engineering Science
(Major Field: Human Factors, Industrial Engineering) and the
Philosophy of Social Science (Minor Field)
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