Daniel E. Martin holds a Ph.D. in Social and Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Howard University and is an Associate Professor of Management at California State University, East Bay, and Director of Research at the Charter for Compassion. Formerly a Visiting Associate Professor at the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University (and currently Consulting Scientist), a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law & Society at UC Berkeley, a Research Fellow for the U.S. Army Research Institute as well as a Personnel Research Psychologist for the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, he has worked with private, public and nonprofit organizations on pre-employment selection, training, and organizational assessment. His research interests include compassion, social capital, ethical behavior, racism and prejudice, human resources assessment, religiosity, spirituality, and humor.

Professor Martin is published in a range of journals, including Journal of Business Ethics, Personnel Review, Human Organization, Ethics and Behavior, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. His current research investigates the impact of individual differences and ideology on social corporate responsibility and human resources decision making. Other research interests include the impact of ideology on compassion and psychological well-being. His current applied work on the use of untapped social capital to ameliorate social problems serve as a research, skills development, and assessment platform.