Michàlle E. Mor Barak, Ph.D., is a Professor at the University of Southern California 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 Professorship of Social Work and Business in a Global Society and is the Chair of the Industrial/Occupational Social Work 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, the Mellon Foundation’s Award for Excellence in Mentorship, and the Franklin C. Sterlin Distinguished Faculty Award for Research and Scholarship. She has been invited to give key note addresses and 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. 

As a Principal Investigator on several large research projects, she has published numerous articles in the areas of global diversity and inclusion, industrial/occupational social work, older adults and employment, job stress and social support, and corporate social responsibility. She 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 (Sage, 2005).