International I-O psychology and the United Nations
by Harold Takooshian

The Society for Industrial Organizational Psychology (SIOP - APA Division 14) held its 22nd annual meeting (April 27-29, 2007) in New York City. This was the largest meeting in its history, with 4,100 IO psychologists filling the Marriott Marquis Hotel. One theme of the SIOP meeting was global I-O psychology. This programming included  a symposium on "International I-O psychology: Growing roles at the United Nations. In this symposium 11 I-O and consulting psychologists briefly reviewed the growing role of I-O psychology in international issues in such areas as teaching, research, service, and advocacy; and described the activities of psychology within NGOs at the United Nations.

Presenters included Richard H. Wexler (President-elect, New York State Psychological Association); Suzanne Roff (CompassPoint Consulting), John Fulkerson (Fulkerson Associates)  John Hollwitz (Fordham University), Rivka Bertisch Meir, New York Elaine C. Bow (Nyack College), Harold Takooshian (Fordham University), Walter Reichman and Mary O’Neill Berry (Sirota Survey Intelligence), Jeffrey A. Goldberg (Personnel Sciences Center), Florence L. Denmark (Pace University). 

For a summary of the entire symposium, contact Dr. Harold Takooshian,
here, via email.