Biography

Ronit Kark is a Full Professor of Leadership and Organizational Psychology in the Department of Psychology at Bar-Ilan University and was the founder and former Director of the 'Gender in the Field Graduate Program' at the Gender Studies Program, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She is also a Distinguished Research Professor at the Exeter School of Business, UK, and an Anna Boyksen Awardee and Fellowship for the Study of Gender and Diversity at the School of Advance Studies of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). Her research interests include leadership and followership, positive relationships and relatedness in organizations, identity and identification processes, gender dynamics in organizations and the role of play in creativity at work. Her work has been published in various leading journals, including The Academy of Management Review, The Academy of Management Annals the AOM Discovery, The Leadership Quarterly, Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Organization, Human Relations and the Journal of Applied Psychology. She served and serves on multiple editorial boards: an Assoiciate Editor of the The Leadership Quarterly, The International Journal of Management Review and in other boards, such as: The Academy of Management Review, The Academy of Management Journal, The AOM Discoveries, and more.

Favourite Leader: Jacinda Ardern

Favourite quote: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both...
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference (Robert Frost).

Paper/Book/Author that inspired your work: Joan Acker (1990) Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies: A Theory of Gendered Organizations, Gender and Society.

What research area are you most excited about for the future? Leadership Impostorism, Allyship, Gender and Leadership, Play