Paul Evans is the Shell Chaired Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Development, Emeritus, at INSEAD (Europe and Singapore). British by nationality but raised in Africa, he has a PhD in Organizational Psychology from MIT, an MBA from INSEAD, and a Danish business diploma, and he is a graduate in law from Cambridge University. He led INSEAD’s activities in the field of international HRM for many years, directing many of their executive programs in this domain. He was titular professor at the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management in Brussels, and has taught at Boston University, MIT, l’Université de Montréal, Stockholm School of Economics, Cornell University, Skolkovo Moscow, CEIBS Shanghai, as well as spending periods as visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, UC Berkeley, and London Business School. His research interests focus on international HRM, leadership, the management of change, and matrix organization, while his long-standing intellectual interest is in the dualities that underlie human and organizational behavior. Among his books are a pioneering study of the relationship between the professional and private life of executives, Must Success Cost so Much? (translated into seven languages). During his career, he has been founder or board member of a number of professional associations and forums. He received an award from INSEAD’s MBA students as “outstanding teacher of the year” for his course on IHRM, and he has worked as an advisor or directed/taught programs for more than 200 multinational corporations. Currently he is the founding academic director of INSEAD’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index (GTCI), a composite model and index covering 109 countries of the world aimed at measuring talent competitiveness of countries, regions, and cities.
