Niro Sivanathan

Professor Niro Sivanathan's research draws on social psychological and evolutionary theories to examine how our judgments, decisions and behaviours are shaped by the psychological experience of status and power within social hierarchies. He also explores how our motivation to maintain self-integrity influences decision-making. His research has been published in top international journals including Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour, Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Applied Psychology, Psychological Science, and Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. This research has been translated to practitioner audiences through publications in the Harvard Business Review and a  TED Talk, chosen by TED as top 10 talks of 2021.  and His research has garnered international press coverage at CNN, Financial Times, Time Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Sunday Times and Forbes.

He teaches Negotiations, Influence, and Decision-making to a wide audience and is the recipient of numerous teaching awards, including being selected as one of the World's top 40 Best B-School Professors under 40 by Poets and Quants in 2016, London Business School's Excellence in Teaching Award, and voted the Best MBA andA EMBA teacher multiple times by the the graduating class. He has provided advisory and executive education services for organizations such as Credit SuisseBain Capital, Kearney, YPO, Merck, Central Bank of Turkey, Salesforce and LVMH.

Professor Sivanathan earned his PhD in Management & Organisations from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and holds an MSc in Management and a BA in Psychology (Honours) from Queen's University in Kingston, Canada.