Thomas J. Roulet

Thomas Roulet
NationalityFrench, British
Known fornegative social evaluations
Academic background
Alma materHEC Paris, Sciences Po, Audencia Business School
Academic work
Disciplineorganization theory, leadership
Sub-disciplineinstitutional theory, stakeholder theory
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge

Thomas J. Roulet FAcSS is a French-British social scientist, management thinker and professor at the University of Cambridge where he holds the Chair of Organisational Sociology and Leadership. He has advanced the concept of negative social evaluations and is known for his research on wellbeing in the context of remote work. He is a senior lecturer at the Judge Business School, and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Roulet is a regular commentator on workplace issues, leadership and management education for a variety of media including the BBC, the Telegraph, the Financial Times, ITV News, Le Monde, The Washington Post or The Guardian among others. He writes a column on strategic leadership for Forbes.

In 2024, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. In 2020, he was elected as one of the trustees and council members of the Society for the Advancement of Management Studies. He is also a Mid-Career Fellow of the British Academy and Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy. He serves as the co-director of the King's Entrepreneurship Lab at King's College Cambridge, which he co-founded in 2021.