Judy Olian, Ph.D.
Committees: Audit
Background
Dr. Olian is President Emerita of Quinnipiac University, having served as its President from July 2018 until July 2025. Previously, she served as dean of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the John E. Anderson Chair in Management from 2006 to 2018. Her research and business expertise centers on aligning organizational strategies and design with human resource systems and incentives, and managing top management teams. She began her UCLA appointment after serving as dean and professor of management at the Smeal College of Business Administration at Pennsylvania State University. Earlier, she served in various faculty and executive roles at the University of Maryland and its Robert H. Smith School of Business.
Dr. Olian serves or has been a member of various advisory boards (including the U.S. Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, Peking University Business School’s International Advisory Board, the Connecticut Governor’s Workforce Council, the Business-Higher Education Forum, New Haven Promise, and Catalyst, a leading global think tank for women in business) and served as Chair of the Loeb Awards for Business Journalism. In 2024, she was appointed by the Governor of Connecticut to co-chair AdvanceCT, a business-driven nonprofit that attracts and retains businesses in the state. Since 2022 she has served on the board of Hartford Healthcare the largest healthcare system in Connecticut and a recent winner of the prestigious AHA Quality Award. Dr. Olian has also served on the board of Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation since 2025.
Born and raised in Australia, Dr. Olian received her B.S. in Psychology from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial Relations from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She was the Chair of AACSB International, the premier thought leadership and accreditation organization for leading global business schools, and currently serves on the board of directors of Ares Management, L.P., a publicly-traded global alternative asset management firm, and Mattel, Inc., a publicly-traded multinational toy manufacturing company.
Other Current Public Company Boards
Ares Management, L.P.
Mattel, Inc.