David De Cremer is currently the Dunton Family dean of D’amore-McKim School of Business at Northeastern University in Boston (NU). As the dean of NU’s business school, he builds on his extensive research, teaching and consultancy experience of what leadership it takes to adopt emerging technologies to transform business in ways that serves humanity across the board; to bring D’Amore-McKim School of Business to the forefront when it comes down to educating students to be responsible business leaders able to work and create in a digital world.

Before moving to Boston, he was a provost chair at National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School and the KPMG endowed professor in management studies at Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. He is still an honorary fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School and a fellow at St. Edmunds college, Cambridge University. He is also a research member of The Justicecollaboratory at Yale Law School, Yale University.

He is the founder of the Erasmus Center of Behavioral Business Ethics at Rotterdam School of Management (the Netherlands) and the Centre on AI Technology for Humankind (AiTH) at NUS Business School. His background is in psychology and economics (nowadays referred to as behavioral economics), and integrating these insights has led him to examine the power of the (biased) human reality across a wide variety of settings, including financial, interpersonal and cultural interactions. He received the honor to become a fellow of the Royal Dutch Academy of Science in 2005. In 2009-2010 he was named the most influential economist in the Netherlands (Top 40 of economists) in 2016 a Global Top Thought Leader in the area of organizational trust, alongside late management guru Stephen Covey and Richard Edelman (President and CEO of Edelman; publisher of the annual Edelman Trust Barometer), in 2020 one of the World Top 2% of scientists, and in 2021 elected as a Thinkers50 Radar (one of 30 bright global minds to watch in the future).

He was born in Belgium (Leuven) and has lived and worked in Europe, UK, US, Middle-East and Asia.

Across a wide range of industries, he has contributed to significant executive development and corporate culture initiatives in Europe, the Middle-East and Asia. His consulting clients include, among others, Novartis, AB Inbev, KPMG, Solvay, IBM, Barclays, Rabobank, ING, Cisco, Bayer, Exmar, DSM, DBS bank, Bank of Singapore, Mizuho, HSBC and Bosch.

He is a very active researcher and applies the newest discovered insights directly into his consultancy and coaching work. Based on his wealth of research knowledge he contributes regularly to TV and radio business programmes, and writes for popular financial, academic and business magazines like Harvard Business Review. Recently, he received the honor of a personal blog for The European Business Review.

He is also the recipient of several research excellence awards, an associate editor of the Academy of Management Annals, a member of the International Advisory Board of California Management Review and has contributed as a keynote speaker to conferences and symposia all over the world.