Dottie Agger-Gupta is an Associate Dean in the School of Human and Organization Development, at Fielding Graduate University. She has over 25 years of corporate experience in knowledge management and computer systems development as well as 16 years in higher education, including serving as a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts and University of San Francisco. In addition, Dottie has been a social worker and continues a secondary career as an artist.

As a scholar-practitioner, her work has addressed a broad range of issues including communication, quality, evaluation, operational design, knowledge management, and information systems in a broad range of organizations including health care systems, manufacturing, and social service agencies. While at Fielding Graduate University, she has served as chair for over 30 doctoral dissertations and has been a member of many additional dissertation committees.

Her current research focuses on the impact of Internet-based technologies on people and societies, especially the rapidly expanding role of online computer games in women over 40 – who currently comprise the largest group of online gamers. This research expands on the ethical, social, psychological, and organizational foci of her doctoral dissertation from the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.