Tricia Olsen

Tricia Olsen

Associate Professor and the Marcus Faculty Fellow, University of Denver

Tricia Olsen, PhD, is Associate Professor and the Marcus Faculty Fellow at the University of Denver’s Daniels College of Business and the Korbel School of International Studies. Olsen studies and teaches about the political economy of development, with a focus on Latin America. Dr. Olsen’s current research is on corporate-community relations, which involves the creation of a large-N database of historical trends of businesses’ human rights practices, the Corporations & Human Rights (CHRD) database (www.chrdproject.com). Olsen has received support from various organizations, including the Carnegie Corporation, USAID, Fulbright-Hays, and the British Academy/Leverhulme. She has consulted for numerous organizations, including the United Nations and the Global Business Initiative. In addition to a co-authored book, her published work can be found in Organization Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Comparative Political Studies, among others. Olsen earned her PhD from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.