Yusuf Sidani

Business & Public administration

Yusuf Sidani (PhD) is Professor of Leadership and Business Ethics at the Suliman S. Olayan School of Business, American University of Beirut (AUB). He is currently the associate dean for research and faculty development at the school. Dr. Sidani’s research focuses on business and employee ethics, gender and diversity in organizations, and international human resource management with special interest in the Middle East region. His research appeared in leading international peer-reviewed academic journals such as Human Resource Management Review, Business Ethics Quarterly, the Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of World Business, and the International Journal of Human Resource management. He is an Associate Editor in the Journal of Business Ethics: A European Review, a member of the editorial board of several journals, and is a reviewer for various journals. Dr. Sidani was awarded the prestigious 2015 Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers. Dr. Sidani has teaching experience in business ethics, leadership, fraud prevention and control, strategic analysis and control, and organizational behavioral courses at the undergraduate, MBA, and EMBA programs. Dr. Sidani collaborated with Edraak (Queen Rania foundation – Jordan) through the AUB-Edraak agreement and delivered an on-line course (MOOC) on “success skills” that ran twice and is now a self-paced course on Edraak platform. Dr. Sidani has served in various professional and non-profit organizations including the Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants, the Lebanese Corporate Governance Taskforce –where he headed the accounting and auditing subcommittee, and the Lebanese Management Association. He has worked as a financial and managerial consultant for various profit and non-profit organizations. He was also appointed as court expert on a number of high profile cases including the special investigation committee appointed by the Lebanese General Prosecutor for the biggest money laundering case in the Middle East (Madina Bank & UCB Bank) – (2006-2008). He is a member of several professional and academic organizations including the American institute of CPAs, the Lebanese Association of Certified Public Accountants, the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business, and the Society for Business Ethics, and the Lebanese Businessmen’s Federation for Support & Development.