Roderick Swaab

Roderick is a Professor of Organisational Behaviour and the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Leadership and Conflict Resolution. His research examines how people navigate the tension between cooperation and competition in groups and organizations, which has produced interventions that improve leadership development, negotiation, and teamwork.

His research has been published in leading disciplinary journals, such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Psychological Science. His research and service to the field has received awards from the Academy of Management, the International Association for Conflict Management, and the Dutch National Science Foundation (NWO). Roderick served as a former Associate Editor at Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and as an editorial board member at the same journal and the Academy of Management Review.

Roderick has been a pioneer of several courses at INSEAD, including the OB1 core MBA course and the Advanced Online Negotiation Course. He is also the Co- Director of INSEAD’s Negotiation Certificate Programme and INSEAD’s Leading Teams Open Enrollment Programme. His co-authored case won the Best Case in Human Resources / Organisational Behaviour awarded by the Case Centre, and his teaching has received several awards in INSEAD’s MBA and EMBA programmes as well as in Executive Education for both teaching and direction.

Roderick is dedicated to doctoral training and served as the Academic Director for the PhD Program at INSEAD. He is also the Co-Founder of INSEAD’s Negotiation and Conflict Management Collaborative, an open platform dedicated to bringing together scholars and practitioners to collaborate on research and education on negotiation and conflict management. Roderick completed his PhD and MSc in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Prior to joining INSEAD, he served at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA.