Speakers
Faysal Mansouri
Faysal Mansouri, Ph.D. in Industrial Economics from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (1992); Full Professor at the University of Sousse, Dean of the Institut Supérieur de Gestion de Sousse (1999-2005); Member of National Council of Statistics (Since 2010).
Faysal Mansouri is the author of Several Publications in Entrepreneurship, Microeconomics of Banking, Economics of innovation, Industrial Economics, Environmental economics, Regional Economics; Scientific Advisor of several Ph.D. and Master thesis in Finance and Banking, Industrial Economics, Entrepreneurship, Environmental Economics; Coordinator of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Tunisia Team; International and National Expert on Several Themes: Higher Education Evaluation, Entrepreneurship, Risk Management, Water Resources Management.
Paul D. Reynolds
Paul D. Reynolds is the 2010-2011 Howard Hoffman Distinguished Scholar of Management and Entrepreneurship at GeorgeWashingtonUniversity and a Senior Research Fellow at University of St.Gallen in Switzerland.
He has held faculty appointments at the Universityof California, Riverside University of Minnesota; Marquette University ;BabsonCollege ;London Business School and Florida International University and visiting and research appointments at the University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, INSEAD in France, Nanyang Technical Universityin, Singapore and George Mason University.
Reynolds completed undergraduate work in engineering at the University of Kansas (BS; 1960); all graduate work was completed at Stanford University, with degrees earned in business (1964; MBA), psychology (1966; MA), and sociology (1969; PhD).
Over the past 20 years he was the coordinating principal investigator of two longitudinal studies of US business creation (Panel Studies of Entrepreneurial Dynamics, I and II) and the founding principal investigator of a seventy nation comparison of entrepreneurial activity (Global Entrepreneurship Monitor).
Reynolds currently serves as co-principal investigator of the second US Panel Study of Entrepreneurial Dynamics. He is the author or co-author of five books; eight edited collections; 42 research reports and monographs; 92 peer review journal articles and book chapters; eight data sets in the ICPSR archives; and made over three hundred presentations to professional and policy audiences. In 2004 Reynolds received the annual Swedish International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research.
Lois Stevenson
President and Chief Entreprenologist LASMA Consulting, Ottawa, Canada Lois Stevenson has been working in the area of small business and entrepreneurship policy for the past 25 years.
She has held various executive-level positions in the Canadian government directing SME, Entrepreneurship and Innovation policy initiatives. From 2006-2010, she was based in the Cairo, Egypt office of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)as Coordinator of the Small and Medium Enterprise Policy (SMEPol) Development Project (a partnership between the Canadian government and the Government of Egypt), and later directing the IDRC-funded Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research in seven Middle East and North Africa countries.
Lois also spent ten years as a university professorin the areas of entrepreneurship and small business management. She has authored (or co-authored) nine books, including Entrepreneurship Policy: Theory and Practice (Springer 2005) andPrivate Sector and Enterprise Development: Fostering Growth in the Middle East and North Africa(Edgar Elgar 2010) and over 45 scholarly papers dealing with women as entrepreneurs, the role of entrepreneurship in development, and entrepreneurship policy. She has also consulted to the ILO and the OECD on projects in developing and transition countries in Africa and Europe.
She is a past president of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and a founding member of the Middle East Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (MCSBE).
David Smallbone
David Smallbone is Professor Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of the Small Business Research Centre at Kingston University. David is also President of ICSB and a Past President of ECSB.
David has been involved in research relating to entrepreneurship, SMEs and public policy since the late 1980s, with entrepreneurship and small business development in transition economies a specialism. In addition, he has published widely on topics that include: entrepreneurship and small business policy; enterprise development in rural areas; and ethnic minority and immigrant entrepreneurship. He has extensive experience of research based consultancy for a range of national and international clients, including central government departments in various countries, the European Commission, UNDP and the OECD
David Storey
David Storey, OBE, is Professor at the Department of Business Management and Economics at University of Sussex ,UK. He has a First Class Degree in Economics, a Diploma in Applied Statistics and a PhD in Economics. He has two honorary Doctorates and has been Visiting Professor at the Universities of Manchester, Reading andDurham , and was an International Fellow at SydneyUniversity in 2009. He is an EIM Fellow.
His book Understanding the Small Business Sector, published in 1994, is currently the most highly cited work on Entrepreneurship or Small Business.
Since 2008 he has published in a range of Journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Human Resource Management, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting.
In 1998 he received the International Award for Entrepreneurship and Small Business Research from the Swedish Council and was awarded a Wilford White fellowship in 2008.
Between 2001 and 2005 he was appointed by the UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry as a Member of the Small Business Council which advised the government on small business policy-making.
He has undertaken work for many overseas governments and organisations. For example, since 2008, he has acted as consultant to the governments of Australia, Mexico, New Zealand and Denmark as well as the World Bank. He produced for OECD in 2008 a Handbook on SME policy evaluation and is currently contributing to their work for the G20. In previous years he has advised the Inter American Development Bank (IADB) on micro enterprises in Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica, and IFC on Mexico. In Europe he co-ordinated an EU-wide review of new technology based firms for DG XIII.
Svetlana Bagaudinova is Senior Private Sector Development Specialist, IFC Women in Business (WIN) Program and Doing Business project at the World Bank.
The WIN program aims to mainstream gender issues into IFC's work, while helping to better leverage the untapped potential of women as well as men in emerging markets. Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Ms. Bagaudinova worked at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she specialized in energy and infrastructure projects.
Ruben Ascúa is Professor at National Technological University (UTN), Regional School of Rafaela; National University of Litoral, School of Economics and National University of General Sarmiento, in Argentina.
Visitor Professor at Business Administration School, Kaiserslautern University of Applied Sciences, Campus Zweibrücken, Germany. Present President of Argentina Affiliate ICSB and President of Red Pymes Mercosur.
Rubén Ascúa has two Degrees, in Business Administration (UNL-FCE) and in Economics (UNR-FCEyE); a Master and a PhD in Economics (PWU). Rubén Ascúa has been involved in research relating to small business, entrepreneurial process, financing and public policies aimed at local development, clusters and industrial districts. Also, Rubén Ascúa has been consultant of Interamerican Development Bank (MIF) and ECLAC-United Nations.
Martin Lyes, Divisional Manager, Research & Innovation, Enterprise Ireland
Martin is responsible for a range of areas covering supports for the commercialisation of research, Irish participation in international technology programmes such as EUREKA, the European Space Agency and Framework Programme 7 as well as technology transfer. Originally a marine biologist, he was awarded an Honours degree from theUniversityofLondon , a doctorate from the Oceanography Department in theUniversityofSouthampton , and he carried out research at the UniversityofDublin during a Royal Society European Post Doctoral Fellowship. He joined the National Board for Science and Technology in Dublin at its inception and through a number of agencies has worked on the management of research programmes and the development of innovation policy.
He has participated as delegate in a range of EU and OECD committees and was Chairman of TAFTIE, the network of European Innovation Agencies in 2008. He was also a member of the Governing Council of the European Science Foundation and a member of the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology.
Elettra Ronchi is Senior Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris where she co-ordinates work on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for health and wellness.
A focus of her work is how OECD countries are seizing the benefits of ICTs to enable innovation of the services sectors for a “silver", ageing society . From 2006 to 2009 she led a project geared towards understanding the drivers and barriers to the adoption of electronic health records in the health sector across OECD countries.
Elettra Ronchi has more than 15 years experience as policy analyst in technology, innovation and health systems, evaluating the instruments available to governments to improve public benefits from investments in science and technology. A PhD graduate from Rockefeller University/Cornell Medical School in New York, her other training qualifications are in public administration and health system management. She started her policy career in 1993 as consultant for the United Nations Development Programme and was in charge of managing a programme on new biotechnologies and health innovation at the OECD from 1995 to 2004.