Instructor Profile

John Burrows

John Burrows, PhD

Senior Lecturer in Leadership, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy

John Burrows is a Senior Lecturer in Leadership at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy and an associate fellow at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School. He has held a faculty position at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Prior to academia, John’s career spanned the public, private, and NGO sectors. He has worked with anti-death penalty groups, think tanks, and Arthur Andersen’s Office of Government Service. In the private sector, John was a partner at Accenture and held senior sales and marketing roles at Seibel and Oracle.

John teaches leadership, negotiation, strategy, decision-making, and organizational psychology to graduate students and senior executives.