Nouman Ashraf

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Associate Professor, Teaching Stream, Organizational Behaviour and Human Resource Management, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Nouman Ashraf is an Associate Professor, Teaching Stream within the Organizational Behavior area at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management.

He possesses a broad range of professional, academic and research interests, with a specialized focus on enabling inclusive and innovative practices within teams, organizations and boards. 

For the last decade and a half, he has held progressively senior roles at the University of Toronto, including most recently as the Director of Equity, Diversity & Inclusion the Rotman School of Management. 

He is a recognized thought leader in governance and has taught thousands of directors in the national Rotman program on Not-for-Profit Governance in partnership with the Institute for Corporate Directors since its inception in 2007.  

Nouman serves as Teaching Fellow at the Institute for Gender + the Economy. He is also an Associate at Trinity College within the University of Toronto and an Affiliated Faculty Member at the University of Toronto School of Cities, where he is the founder and Academic Director of the Leading Social Justice Collective. 

In his free time, Nouman mentors exceptional post-graduate students in his capacity as Senior Fellow Emeritus at Massey College within the University of Toronto. Most recently, he developed an online course on inclusive leadership in partnership with GetSmarter which launches in Fall 2023.