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Gregory Michael Distelhorst

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts and Science, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources

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  • Associate Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Science, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources

BIO

Gregory Michael Distelhorst is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, appointed at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Rotman School of Management.

His research focuses on multinational business and worker rights, as well as politics and policy in contemporary China. It appears in peer-reviewed social science journals including the American Journal of Political Science, Management Science, Organization Science, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, The Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.

He was previously a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management and Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He also lived in mainland China for five years, including fellowships through the U.S. Fulbright Program and the Yale-China Association. He received a BA in Cognitive Science from Yale University and a PhD in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Associate Professor with Tenure
    University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and Rotman School of Management, Strategic Management Area, Toronto, Canada2021 - present
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and Rotman School of Management, Strategic Management Area, Toronto, Canada2018 - 2021
  • Assistant Professor of Global Economics and Management
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2016 - 2019
  • Associate Professor (tenure-track) of International Business
    University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom2015 - 2016
  • Postdoctoral Fellow
    University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada2013 - 2015

DEGREES

  • Ph.D., Political Science
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States2013
  • B.A., Cognitive Scienc
    Yale University, New Haven, United States2003

LANGUAGES

  • Chinese (Mandarin)
  • English

AVAILABILITY

  • Media enquiries