David Collings holds the Chair of Sustainable Business at Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin. He previously held faculty positions at Dublin City University, University of Sheffield and University of Galway and visiting positions at King’s College London, Nanyang Business School in Singapore and Cornell University as a Fulbright Scholar. He is an elected Member of the Royal Irish Academy and Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and Trinity College Dublin. He a former Chair of the HR Division of the Academy of Management.

He recent research has focused on talent management, sustainable work, and the future of work. He has published in leading international journals including Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Discoveries, Organization Science, Journal of Management and Personnel Psychology, practitioner outlets such as Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review and 12 books. A recent Stanford-led study ranked him in the top 2% of scholars globally based on career citations impact. He has been named as one of the most influential thinkers in the field of HR years by HR Magazine on five occasions. His work has been cited in media outlets including the BBC, Forbes, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

He is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Management and former Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Business, Human Resource Management Journal, and former Associate Editor at Academy of Management Perspectives. He sits or has sat on the editorial boards of multiple journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management and Journal of Management Studies.