Sheila M. Puffer

Sheila M. Puffer is University Distinguished Professor and Professor of International Business and Sustainability at the D’Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University, Boston. Her current research focuses on global leadership, the global sand crisis, and sustainability in the international construction and fossil fuel industries. Dr. Puffer has more than 170 publications, including 95 refereed articles and 14 books. She is also an associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. She has been recognized as the #1 scholar internationally in business and management in Russia, the former Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe according to a Journal of International Business Studies article. She earned a diploma from the Plekhanov Institute of the National Economy in Moscow, and holds BA (Slavic Studies) and MBA degrees from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a PhD in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley.