Dr. Sareh Pouryousefi

Overview

Sareh Pouryousefi is an Associate Professor in the Department of Law & Business at the Ted Rogers School of Management (TRSM), Toronto Metropolitan University. She is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics (2026–2027). Before joining TRSM, she was a faculty member at the University of Nottingham (UK). She was also a Visiting Scholar at the Olsson Center for Applied Ethics at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, and at the Schulich School of Business, York University. She completed her PhD in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. 

Her research focuses on the normative foundations of business ethics and her current work is on trust and trustworthiness. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Business Ethics Quarterly, Journal of Business Ethics, Philosophical Studies, Utilitas, and Inquiry. She was the recipient of TRSM Research Recognition Awards in 2022 and 2025. Dr. Pouryousefi serves on the Editorial Review Board of Business Ethics Quarterly and is a co-editor of its Special Issue on Normativity in Business Ethics and Beyond. She is a reviewer for a number of academic journals and international conferences in her field and has served as an organizer and mentor for the Society for Business Ethics Emerging Scholars Program, the European Business Ethics Network PhD Workshop, and meetings of the Canadian Business Ethics Research Network. 

Dr. Pouryousefi has taught courses in business ethics, critical thinking, healthcare ethics, public administration ethics, organizational behaviour, and corporate social responsibility. She has supervised undergraduate, MBA, MSc, and MScM theses, and has supervised PhD students to completion. Her teaching was recognized with school- and university-level awards at the University of Toronto and the University of Nottingham.