Sunita Sah

Sunita Sah

Professor Sunita Sah is a physician turned organizational psychologist. Her research focuses on ethics, influence, and advice. Specific topics include trust, advisor-advisee relationships, conflicts of interest, disclosure, influence, compliance, and defiance. In particular, she researches why we comply with bad advice and how disclosure policies can backfire.

Professor Sah was previously the KPMG Professor of Management Studies at the University of Cambridge in the UK and held academic positions at Georgetown, Duke, and Harvard Universities in the US. Before entering academia, Professor Sah worked as a medical doctor for the UK’s National Health Service, subsequently becoming a senior consultant and European marketing director at IMS Health Consulting and then managing director [CEO] of Organisational Dynamics Ltd. She holds a Ph.D. and MS in organizational behavior from Carnegie Mellon University, an MBA with distinction from London Business School, an MB ChB (UK equivalent to the US MD) in medicine and surgery, and a BSc (Hons) in psychology from the University of Edinburgh.