Keri Pearlson is a Senior Lecturer and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School. She previously served as the Executive Director of the CAMS (Cybersecurity At MIT Sloan) research consortium.

Pearlson's research spans MIS, business strategy, and organizational design. Her current research studies cybersecurity resilience, specifically looking at how boards of directors govern cybersecurity and digital risk, how AI introduces security and business risk, how organizations build a culture of cybersecurity, and how supply chains and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can be made more cyber-resilient.

Pearlson holds a doctorate in business administration (DBA) in MIS from Harvard Business School, and an MS in industrial engineering and BS in mathematics from Stanford University. She is the founding president of the Austin Society for Information Management (SIM) and was named “2014 National SIM Leader of the Year.”