Dr. Thurman, a Columbia MBA valedictorian, service award winner, and multiple teaching award recipient, has

extensive advisory and management experience helping a variety of Fortune 500 firms realize value from

innovative business, operations, and technology strategies. He has held senior positions at Booz Allen Hamilton

and American Express and has served public and private sector clients on six continents.

Paul has consulted to a multitude of global financial services, healthcare, retail, drug, and consumer products firms

across a number of business disciplines. His advisory work has focused on analytical modeling to support strategic

planning and decision-making, corporate cost management, and technology integration. He has developed

solutions around customer segmentation, demand forecasting, and experience mapping. Paul runs his own

management and executive education consultancy and is a frequent conference organizer, chair, and presenter.

Professor Thurman currently teaches strategic management and data analysis courses at Columbia's Mailman

School of Public Health. He has also taught courses in decision, risk, and operations in the full-time and Executive

MBA Programs at the Columbia, London, and University of California, Berkeley business schools, and at

Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. He was a Healthcare Research Fellow, Professor, and MBA

Director at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO in Moscow, Russia, and he has held professorships

in China, India, Brazil, Greece, Saudi Arabia, Chile, Australia, and Iceland.

In addition to his faculty appointments, Paul serves as clinical professor and affiliated researcher at the National

Cancer Institute's Center for Cancer Research at the National Institutes of Health. His peer-reviewed research has

focused on scientific collaboration and its effect on research quality, and on cancer drug patents, FDA approvals,

and drug pricing. He is the author of MBA Fundamentals Statistics, (Kaplan, 2008; CreateSpace 2016), Pocket Guide to

Data Analysis (Kaplan, 2009), and co-author (with Thomas P. Ference) of MBA Fundamentals Strategy (Kaplan, 2009;

CreateSpace 2016). He has also developed online courses for LinkedIn Learning and custom training programs in

leadership, strategic thinking, innovation, and data analysis and decision-making for corporate clients.

Dr. Thurman is also lead editor and chapter author of Female Immigrant Entrepreneurs, Father-Daughter Succession in

Family Businesses, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability, and Leadership and Change Management: A Cross-Cultural Perspective,

four research compendia published by Gower (UK) from 2010-2016. From 2013-2018, He also completed two

texts for the SAS Institute, including Propensity Scoring and Adjustment for Causal Inference. In addition to leading

USAID-, CDC-, and HRSA-funded efforts to reform public health education in Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and

Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Paul continues work with the World Bank to develop workshops on

data analysis and decision-making in fragile states focused on the country of Sudan. He recently co-authored his

12th book, The Innovative Management Ecosystem: Reskilling and Upskilling the Future Work Force, and continues to publish

research in HIV/AIDS healthcare workforce efforts, in conjunction with Columbia’s International Center for

AIDS Prevention (ICAP), based on work in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

Paul has served on the boards of the Greenburgh (New York) Nature Center, the Scarsdale (New York) Teen

Center, and currently sits on the advisory boards of a number of entrepreneurial ventures in higher education,

healthcare, sports media, entertainment, veterans’ affairs, and information technology security. He received his BS

in mathematics from Stanford University and his MBA (highest honors) from Columbia. He completed doctoral

work in health policy and management at the State University of New York and received his Doctor of Business

Administration (DBA) degree from the Ecole des Ponts Business School in Paris, France.