Margarethe Wiersema

Margarethe Wiersema is the Dean’s Professor Emeritus in Strategic Management at The Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine and is an SMS Fellow. She has an MBA and Ph.D. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. Professor Wiersema is internationally recognized as one of the leading experts on corporate strategy and corporate governance with more than 70 publications and over 16,000 citations and her research has appeared in the New York Times, The Financial Times, The Economist, Fortune, Business Week, the Washington Post, and The Economist Intelligence Unit for their “Executive Briefing”. The recipient of numerous awards for excellence in research and teaching, Professor Wiersema was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Copenhagen Business and the Distinguished PhD Alumni Award from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In 2022, she was awarded the Academy of Management Irwin Outstanding Educator Award and the Strategic Management Society’s Service Award. She serves as the Chair of the board of the International Corporate Governance Society, on the Senior Advisory Board of the Global Strategy Journal, and as editor of Strategic Organization. She served as Dean of the Fellows of the Strategic Management Society, Associate Editor of Strategic Management Journal, Associate Editor of Academy of Management Perspectives, Board of Directors of the Strategic Management Society, and Past President of the Corporate Strategy and Governance Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society. Professor Wiersema is actively involved with the business community by providing expertise on the subject of strategic analysis and thinking as well as the role of the Board of Directors and corporate governance.