Mustafa F. Özbilgin

Who is Mustafa F. Özbilgin?

Mustafa F. Özbilgin, sometimes rendered as Mustafa F. Ozbilgin, is a Turkish-born British sociologist. He is Professor of Human Resource Management at Brunel Business School, Brunel University and since 2010 the editor-in-chief of the British Journal of Management. He is also co-chair of Management and Diversity at University Paris-Dauphine in France. Between 2006 and 2010, he served as the editor-in-chief of Equal Opportunities International.

He holds visiting professorships at Panthéon-Assas University, St Gallen University, Cornell University, Japan Institute of Labour Policy, CEPS-INSTEAD, and Istanbul Bilgi University among others. His papers are published in journals including the Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Vocational Behavior, British Journal of Management, Human Relations, Social Science and Medicine, and Human Resource Management.

Özbilgin obtained a BA in Business Administration from Boğaziçi University in Turkey in 1993, an MA in Human Resource Management and Development at Marmara University in 1995 and a PhD in social sciences at the University of Bristol in 1998.

His research focuses on equality, diversity, and fairness at work from relational, comparative and international perspectives. He founded the annual Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Conferences in 2008 in Norwich. Since then the conference was held in Istanbul in 2009, Vienna in 2010, and Auckland in 2011. Next EDI conference will be held in Toulouse in 2012. He is the editor of the book series, International Perspectives on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, and associate editor of the journal Gender, Work and Organization.