Adrian Furnham

Adrian Furnham is one of the world’s leading applied psychologists. With three doctorates, he is Professor of Psychology at University College London. He also lectures, examines and conducts research world-wide and is often on TV and the radio to provide expert and down to earth views on many issues to do with why and how people and organisations behave as they do.

Adrian is a prolific and highly readable author of over 600 research papers, many serious newspaper articles and 42 books ranging from All in the Mind (2001), Complementary Medicine (1997), Personality at Work (1994), The New Economic Mind (1995), The Myths of Management (1996), The Psychology of Behaviour at Work (1997), The Hopeless, Hapless and Helpless Manager (2000), The Psychology of Culture Shock (2001), and The Dark Side of Behaviour at Work (2004).

Adrian Furnham was educated at the London School of Economics where he obtained a distinction in an MSc Econ., and at Oxford University where he completed a doctorate (DPhil) in 1981. He has subsequently earned a DSc (1991) and DLitt (1995) degree. Previously a lecturer in Psychology at Pembroke College, Oxford he is now Professor of Psychology at University College London. He has lectured widely abroad and held scholarships and visiting professorships at, amongst others, the University of New South Wales, the University of the West Indies and the University of Hong Kong.

Professor Furnham is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society and is ranked the second most productive psychologist in the world since 1980. He is on the editorial board of a number of international journals, as well as the Elected President of the International Society for the Study of Individual Differences. He is also a founder director of Applied Behavioural Research Associates (ABRA) which specialises in research on corporate evaluation and design, performance appraisal, personnel and corporate assessment and selection, and state-of-the-art literature reviews. He writes regular columns in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Times and is a regular contributor to BBC radio and television.

Like Noel Coward, he believes work is more fun than fun and considers himself to be a well-adjusted workaholic. He is however often sought after by bridge, tennis and squash players who like to win. He enjoys writing popular articles, travelling to exotic countries, consulting on real-life problems, and going to the theatre.