Maurie Kelly is a member of the research faculty and director of informatics at Pennsylvania State Institutes for Energy and the Environment and an instructor at the Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University. Kelly teaches courses in international business, negotiation and conflict resolution, strategic management, leadership, business administration, and information science. Her research focuses on informatics and technology, environmental topics, and crisis leadership, in particular leadership at times of extreme natural disasters. She holds a PhD in organizational development.