Peter Belmi

Education: Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior, Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.

Peter Belmi is the Scott C. Beardsley Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Darden School of Business and a Shannon Fellow at the University of Virginia. He also holds a courtesy appointment at the School of Engineering and Applied Science. Peter earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.

Peter's research focuses on social class, culture, power, stratification, and inequality. In 2012, he received the Outstanding Research Award from the Society of Personality and Social Psychology. Two years later, he was honored with the Best Paper Award from the Excellence in Ethics Research Conference, followed by the Best Article Award from the Academy of Management in 2016. Most recently, in 2020, Peter was awarded the Wells Fargo Award for Most Outstanding Research Publication. Thinkers50 recognized him as one of the "30 emerging thinkers with the potential to make lasting contributions to management theory and practice." Peter serves on the editorial boards of leading academic journals, such as Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, and Academy of Management Discoveries.

As the course head for the Leading Organizations Core Course and the instructor of a popular MBA elective called "Paths to Power," Peter has been celebrated for his teaching excellence. In 2018, Poets & Quants named him one of the "40 Best Business Professors Under 40." That same year, he received the University of Virginia's Mead-Colley Award, a distinction given to a Darden professor who embodies the Jeffersonian ideal of teaching. In 2020, Peter was honored with the Faculty Diversity Award for his "exceptional contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the Darden community." Additionally, in both 2023 and 2024, the graduating class voted Peter as the Faculty Marshal for the Residential MBA Program, the highest honor bestowed by graduating students.

Beyond academia, Peter regularly works with executives, managers, and companies across a diverse range of industries. His teaching addresses leadership, strategic change, power and politics in organizations, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Peter's work has been published in leading psychology and management journals, including the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Psychological Science, Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Organization Science, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. His research has also been featured by prominent media outlets such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fortune, Forbes, NPR, Huffington Post, Newsweek, the Financial Times, Marketwatch, Priceonomics, Public Radio International, The Boston Globe, Medium, Harvard Business Review, Academic Minute, and Inside Higher Ed.