Graeme Martin is Professor of Management in the School of Business at the University of Dundee.  Prior to joining the University in August 2012, he held professorial appointments at the Adam Smith Business School, University of Glasgow and Edinburgh Business School, Heriot Watt University, as well as being founding Director of the Dundee Business School at Abertay University. He has also held visiting international professorial appointments at Gothenburg University in Sweden, Macquarie University and UTS in Australia, Ca Foscari University of Venice in Italy, Peking University in China and the University of Colorado in the USA.  Graeme is also an Academic Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and has previously undertaken extensive work for them.

Graeme has served on a number of editorial boards and was Editor in Chief of the Journal of Organizational Effectiveness: People and Performance until recently.  He is currently Chair of the Scientific Board of the Center for Global Human Resource Management at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden.  

He has published extensively in the fields of HRM, management and leadership and change management in leading international journals, including Organization Studies, the British Journal of Management, Social Science and Medicine, Sociology of Health and Illness, the Human Resource Management Journal, the International Journal of Human Resource Management and Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.  These also include eight single/ co-authored/edited books on HR, corporate reputations, e-HR and social media, and management and leadership,  chapters in leading HR research-based texts, and research reports for organisations including the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), Scottish Enterprise, Skills for Health (the UK sector skills council), the European Union, the Health Department of the Scottish Government and the ESRC/Scottish Government, and the British Medical Association.

Graeme began his career in personnel and industrial relations management in the engineering and construction industry in the UK and overseas and has continued to have strong links with practice. He was appointed as a board member of NHS Tayside from 2018-23 and became its Vice Chair in 2020. He has also undertaken consulting and research projects for a large number of private and public sector organizations in the UK, continental Europe and Australia in the past thirty years. These include major companies in the UK, Sweden, Switzerland, Australia, the NHS in Scotland, the UK Public Sector People Managers Association, the CIPD, the Health and Education Training Institute of New South Wales and other healthcare organizations in Australia.

Previously, he held positions as a member of advisory panel to the Scottish Government on public services reform and human capital, and as a non-executive director of voluntary sector organization.   Graeme was also part of the global faculty of the New York-based Reputation Institute.

Currently, he is working on three healthcare-related impact cases, advising on workforce strategy for NHS Tayside, and  teaching a programme of leadership development for Fife Social Work Services.  Finally, he published a third edition of one of his books, 'Managing People in Changing Organizations' in 2025.