David A. Thomas (academic)

David Anthony Thomas (born September 26, 1956) is an American psychologist, expert on organizational behavior, and academic administrator who currently^[when?] serves as the 12th president of Morehouse College, a historically Black men's college in Atlanta.^[1] From 2017 to 2018, he was the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Thomas served at the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business as its Dean from 2011 to 2016 and as the William R. Berkley Chair and Professor of Management from 2016 to 2017.

Thomas was earlier a professor of business administration at Harvard University, from 1990 to 2011, where he rose to direct the school's Organizational Behavior Unit as the Fitzhugh chair from 2006 to 2011. He was a senior associate dean and director of faculty recruitment, there, from 2005 to 2008. Before joining the faculty at Harvard in 1990, Thomas was an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from 1986 to 1990.^[2]