Rawi Abdelal is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he has been a professor since 1999. He holds the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management title and teaches and writes about globalization and geopolitics within the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit.

Abdelal's academic background includes a Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University, earned in 1999, and an M.A. from the same institution in 1997.