Kirsten Martin
Dean of the Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy Carnegie Mellon University
- Pittsburgh PA
Biography
Martin is the Technology and Business Ethics editor for the Journal of Business Ethics and has received several grants from the National Science Foundation for her work on privacy and data ethics. She is also an affiliate of Northeastern University’s Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity and a member of the advisory board for the Future Privacy Forum.
A frequent speaker on the ethical implications of emerging technologies, Martin has provided expert testimony and briefings to government agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission; Government Accountability Office; U.S. Treasury Department; U.S. Census Bureau; National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; National Academy of Engineering; National Academy of Education; German Federal Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection; and the U.S. Department of Justice. Her recent book, Ethics of Data and Analytics, offers a framework for responsible data use in business and policy contexts. Martin’s TEDx talk focuses on digital privacy.
Prior to joining Heinz College as Dean, she was the William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of Technology Ethics and Professor of IT, Analytics, and Operations at the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, where she directed the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center from 2021-2023. She also served as the Lindner-Gambal Professor in Business Ethics and chair of the Strategic Management and Public Policy department at George Washington University.
Areas of Expertise
Media Appearances
Stressed at Work? Your Office Phone Booth Could Tell Your Boss
Bloomberg online
2024-03-10
“It’s one thing to share your heart rate with your doctor but it’s a privacy violation for it to be known by your workplace,” said Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame. “I don’t see how that won’t eventually get down to the individual level.”
New dean of CMU's Heinz College seeks to grow program accessibility for working professionals (Personalities of Pittsburgh)
Pittsburgh Business Times online
2025-12-15
Journalist's intro:
Earlier this year, Ramayya Krishnan, who had served as dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy for 16 years, stepped down from the role and joined the faculty. CMU tapped Kirsten Martin, then a professor of technology ethics and of information technology, analytics and operations at the University of Notre Dame, to serve as the Heinz College’s next leader, overseeing its faculty, research and graduate programs. Martin brings extensive experience in higher education and research to the role, though her career began in operations engineering, where she worked as a coder for a consulting firm and then for a telecommunications company in the early ’90s. It was these early experiences “building out the backbone of the internet,” where Martin was introduced to the moral implications of technology and how business’ decisions could have direct impacts on consumers and society — topics that would go on to shape not only her Ph.D. research, but her entire career as an academic.
Media
Social
Accomplishments
Student Choice Award – Faculty Teaching for the Global MBA program
2016-06-15
Student choice.
Outstanding Faculty by the WEMBA 2018 Cohort
2018-06-15
Wharton Executive MBA (WEMBA)
Master Ethics Teacher Award. Teaching Ethics in Universities Conference: Master Class in Business Ethics
2019-06-15
BYU
Education
Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia
Ph.D.
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
M.B.A.
University of Michigan
B.S.E.
Industrial and Operations Engineering
Links
Articles
Kirsten Martin
Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
Kirsten Martin's Google Scholar page with a comprehensive list of her publications.
