Dr. Rob Gailey joined the Fermanian School of Business (FSB) as a professor of business in 2005. In addition to teaching in the undergraduate and graduate programs, he serves as the director of the Center for International Development (CID). Gailey’s experience and work has revolved around ways to engage the workplace and the church in helping address global poverty. He has served as an associate pastor, missionary, nonprofit leader, and educator around the areas of economic development, cross-cultural advocacy, and poverty alleviation. Gailey has presented and trained in a number of countries in various regions of the world and has lived abroad for several years. He is well networked in the nonprofit and social entrepreneurship space and has leveraged his contacts to help get PLNU students and alums plugged into internships and jobs in many of the most innovative and well- respected organizations around the world that are creatively and successfully addressing global poverty. During his time at PLNU, Gailey has stayed actively involved in university-wide and FSB committees, most recently serving as the chair of PLNU’s Faculty Council during the 2015 – 16 academic year.
Education
- Ph.D., Leadership Studies, University of San Diego
- M.Div., Nazarene Theological Seminary
- B.A., Business Administration, Eastern Nazarene College
Courses Taught
- International Business – BUS 4080
- Leading with Integrity – BUS 6048A
- Leading with Service – BUS 6048B
- Leading with Purpose – BUS 6048C
- Theories of Economic Development – ECO 3015
- Contemporary Development Planning – ECO 4070
- Nonprofit Organization Management – MGT 4070
- Sustainability in Action – SUS 4075
Experience in Field
- Point Loma Nazarene University, Professor of Business, 2005 – present
- Point Loma Nazarene University, Director of the Center for International Development, 2005 – present
- World Relief, Director of Microfinance Consulting Services, 1999 – 2005
- Microcredit Summit Campaign, Research Director, 1997 – 1999
- Washington National Church of the Nazarene, Associate Pastor, 1997 – 1999
- Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, Field Liason and Logistics Coordinator, 1997
- Malawi Nazarene Vocational School, Director, 1995 – 1996
- Research Interests: Microfinance, social capital, international economic development, measurements of poverty, faith-based approaches to holistic relief and development, social entrepreneurship
Professional and Community Involvement
- Nazarene Compassionate Ministries, Inc., Chair, 2014 – present
- Lazarian World Homes, Founding Board Member and Secretary (2008 – 2011), Board of Directors 2008 – 2019
- Guest Lecturer at John Hopkin University, UCSD, BYU, Baylor University and the Royal Institute of Technology/Jönköping International Business School in Sweden.
- Fermanian School of Business Global Initiatives Committee, Chair, 2016 – present
- PLNU Faculty Council, Member, 2015 – present (Chair, 2015 – 2016)
- PLNU Planning Action Council, Member, 2012 – present
- PLNU Future Initiative Think Tank, Member, 2012 – 2013
Awards and Honors
- Eastern Nazarene College Emerging Leader Alumni Award, 2012
- Christian Business Faculty Association Best Pedagogical Paper, 2011
Dissertations, Presentations, and Publications
- Monty Lynn, Rob Gailey & Derran Reese (Aug 2021). Development in Mission: A Guide for Transforming Global Poverty and Ourselves. Abilene Christian University Press.
- Dean G. Blevins, Robert Gailey, & Susan Brownlee (June 2020) Ministerial Entrepreneurship: Reenvisioning Entrepreneurship and Revitalizing the Church. Journal Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry
- Monty L. Lynn, Robert C. Gailey & Paul F. Buller (Sept. 13, 2018) Developing countries: An overlooked segment in business school curricula and co-curricula?, Journal of Education for Business.
- Boan, D., Aten, J., Greener, S. & Gailey, R. (Oct. 2016). The well-prepared international development worker. Missiology: An International Review, 44(4), 430-447.
- Gailey, R. (Spring, 2015). Book Review: Sabbath as Resistance: Saying No to the Culture of Now by Walter Brueggemann. Journal of Biblical Integration in Business, 18(1), 72.
- Datta, P.B. & Gailey, R. (2012). Empowering women through social entrepreneurship: Case study of a women's cooperative in India. Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, 36(3), 569–587.
- Gailey, R. & Harver, R. (Oct. 2013). How can microfinance contribute to restoring dignity and transforming lives in urban slums? Journal of Social Business, 3(3), 74-101.
- Gates, J., Bollinger, L. & Gailey, R. (2012). Nurturing a Prophetic Imagination: Missiology as Ecclesiology In Gates, J. & Mann, M. (Eds.), Nurturing the Prophetic Imagination (pp. 229-244). Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers.
- Graber, K. & Gailey, R. (2005). Sustainability in Microfinance – What’s the Bottom Line? In Dean, J., Schaffner, J. & Smith, S.L.S. (Eds.), Attacking Poverty in the Developing World: Christian Practitioners and Academics in Collaboration (pp. 63-76). Waynesboro, GA: Authentic Media, 2005.
