Titles

• Senior Global Futures Scientist, Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory
• Associate Director, Sustainable Purchasing Research Initiative
• Assistant Professor, Global Sustainable Enterprise, Thunderbird School of Global Management
• Program Lead for Corporate Engagement in Biodiversity Conservation, Center for Biodiversity Outcomes, Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation

Biography

Shirley-Ann Behravesh is an assistant professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise with the Thunderbird School of Global Management.Behravesh is also a senior sustainability scientist with the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. Behravesh holds degrees in management, finance, manufacturing engineering and sustainability. Her research focuses on strategies to encourage adoption of sustainability and innovation practices within organizations and communities. Having grown up on a small island in the Caribbean, she is particularly interested in building resiliant communities through grassroots innovations in small-island states and the developing world. She teaches courses in innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. Behravesh works with and advises organizations in the field of sustainability and sits on the Climate Action Advisory Council for the City of Tucson.

Education

• PhD, Sustainability, Arizona State University, 2017
• MPhil, Manufacturing Engineering, University of Cambridge, 2006
• BS, Management with Finance, Minor Information Systems, University of the West Indies, 2004

Expertise

• corporate sustainability
• social/environmental enterprise
• hybrid organizations
• sustainability index
• industrial standards
• organizational theory
• green business practices
• Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
• Responsible Consumption and Production
• Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• Decent Work and Economic Growth