Christina Maslach, PhD, is a Professor of Psychology (Emerita) and a researcher at the Healthy Workplaces Center at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her A.B. from Harvard, and her Ph.D. from Stanford. She is best known as the pioneering researcher on job burnout, producing the standard assessment tool (the Maslach Burnout Inventory, MBI), books, and award-winning articles. Her latest book is The Burnout Challenge: Managing People’s Relationships with their Jobs (2022). The impact of her work is reflected by the official recognition of burnout, as an occupational phenomenon with health consequences, by the World Health Organization in 2019. She has been honored with multiple awards, both academic and public, including an award from the National Academy of Sciences for scientific reviewing (2020), and her inclusion in Business Insider’s 2021 list of the top 100 people transforming business.