Chiara Trombini is Lecturer of Organization and People Management at Luiss Business School, where she teaches Organizational Behavior, Leadership and Negotiation at Master, MBA and Executive levels.

Prior to joining Luiss, she worked at INSEAD Singapore and at Harvard Kennedy School.

She has received prestigious international recognition by being named among the World’s “Best 40-Under-40 MBA Professors”.

Professor Trombini is an economist by training and earned her Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University. Her research focuses on how behavioral insights can help us understand and improve employees, leaders, organizations, and society.

Using a multi-method approach, that includes experiments, experience sampling methodology, and physiological responses, she investigates ways to mitigate cognitive and affective biases in leadership, hiring, performance evaluations, and negotiations. Her work also examines women’s leadership advancement and the role of negotiations in career progression.

She regularly speaks at international conferences, and she has been invited to present her work at several institutions in Asia, Australia, Europe, South Africa, the Middle East, and the United States. She has been recognized with international academic honors and awards, such as an honorable mention at the APS Researching Injustice and Social Equality Award.

Professor Trombini’s research has been published in leading academic journals including the Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Negotiation and Conflict Management Research, and Information Systems Research.

Her work has also been featured across a range of international media outlets such as INSEAD Knowledge, Harvard’s WAPPP Wire, The Bulletin Magazine at the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce, The European Business Review, and Inc. Magazine (US).

Professor Trombini collaborates with multinational corporations in a variety of sectors including pharmaceuticals, insurance, energy, personal care, automotive, defense and security, and finance.