Karlene Roberts, professor of business

Karlene H. Roberts is a professor in UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and director of the campus’s Center for Catastrophic Risk Management. She specializes in organizational behavior and industrial relations, including the design and management of organizations (and systems of organizations) in which errors can have catastrophic consequences. Results of this research on risk management have been applied to U.S. Navy aircraft carrier operations, interbank financial telecommunications, the Federal Aviation Administration’s air traffic control system, and other critical enterprises. Roberts holds her B.A. in psychology from Stanford and her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.