Biography
Daniel Diermeier is a faculty member at Northwestern University, holding appointments as the IBM Professor of Regulation and Competitive Practice of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the Kellogg School of Management, as well as Professor of Political Science at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
Professor Diermeier is the Director of the Ford Motor Company Center for Global Citizenship and academic director of the CEO Perspective Program (Kellogg’s most senior executive education program), a joint venture between the Kellogg School of Management, and the Corporate Leadership Center. He also serves as Chairman of the Northwestern Global Health Foundation. He is the co-founder and former director of the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO). Professor Diermeier also served as the founding director of the Social Enterprise at Kellogg program (SEEK).
Professor Diermeier’s teaching and research focuses on political institutions, the interaction of business and politics, crisis leadership, reputation management, integrated strategy, and strategic aspects of corporate social responsibility. He is author of Reputation Rules: Strategies for Building Your Company’s Most Valuable Asset (McGraw-Hill 2011), also translated into Japanese and Mandarin and co-author of A Behavioral Theory of Elections (Princeton University Press 2011). His work has been published by numerous academic journals in the fields of management, economics, and political science and has been featured globally in media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the Economist, Business Week, the Financial Times, Fortune, The New York Times, Newsweek, Nikkei Business, the Chicago Tribune, and De Telegraaf. He has lectured globally on crisis and reputation management, integrated strategy, activists and consumer boycotts, political strategy and regulatory management. He has also led customized programs in biotechnology, energy, financial services, manufacturing, medical marketing, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, media management, regulatory management, security management, and transportation management.
Daniel Diermeier has been an advisor to some of the world’s leading companies. His clients include: Abbott Laboratories, Accenture, AHIP, Allianz, APCO Worldwide, Baker & McKenzie, Baxter International, BP, Boston Scientific, Cargill, the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, the Federal Government of Canada, the Chicago Urban League, the City of Chicago (Office of the Mayor), CIBC, ConAgra, The Dallas Morning News, Edelman, Enbridge, Exelon, FMC, the FBI, W.W. Grainger, GroupOn, HSBC, IFCO Systems, Intercontinental Exchange, Johnson & Johnson, Kraft, McDonald’s, Metro AG, Metro Cash & Carry International, Nicor, People’s Energy, Owens-Illinois, Perkins Coie, PricewaterhouseCoopers, REWE Group, Roche Diagnostics, Shell, State Farm, Takeda, and UnitedHealth Group.
He has received numerous awards including the prestigious Faculty Pioneer Award from the Aspen Institute in 2007, named the “Oscar of Business Schools” by the Financial Times. In 2001, he was the recipient of the L.G. Lavengood Professor of the Year Award at Kellogg School of Management, and is a four-time recipient of Kellogg’s Sidney J. Levy Teaching Award. In December 2004 he was appointed to the Management Board of the FBI. He has also served as a senior advisor to PricewaterhouseCoopers and is an advisory board member for Quantum Secure, a security management technology company. Professor Diermeier is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago.
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