Gina Ligon
Dr. Gina Ligon. is the Director of the National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology, and Education Center (NCITE) and Jack and Stephanie Koraleski Professor of Collaboration Science Management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology and Minor in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Oklahoma. In 2020, Dr. Ligon received the Award for Distinguished Research or Creative Activity for Scholarship/Research.
Prior to joining University of Nebraska Omaha, she was a full-time faculty member at Villanova University in the Graduate Programs in Human Resource Development. She also worked as a Director of Performance Consulting at St. Louis-based Psychological Associates.
Her research program focuses on the identification and development of high-level talent; she has specific expertise in innovation and leadership, and has published over 70 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters on these subjects. National security, organizational structures, and leadership in non-normative organizations (e.g., violent ideological) are also of interest to her.
Ph.D., Industrial and Organizational Psychology, University of Oklahoma, 2004
M.S., Experimental Psychology, University of Oklahoma, 2002
B.S., Psychology, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 2000