Professor Katerina Nicolopoulou (FRSA, FEL, SFHEA) is a Professor of Entrepreneurship at the College of Business Administration and the Head of the new Global Research Cluster for Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Leadership at Ajman University. She supports the strategic direction and development of Entrepreneurial Leadership mission pivot of the College of Business Administration in order to create impact for the community, students, stakeholders and the University. Also, she is the Internationalisation Lead for the College of Business Administration. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK; Entrepreneurial Leadership Fellow of NCEE (National Centre for Entrepreneurship in Education), UK and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE. She has previously been a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation at Strathclyde Business School, where she held Research Leadership roles as Director of Research, Global DBA Director, Academic Mentor for a Doctoral Training Centre, Strategic Research Sub-theme Leader and Director of a Research Group. She has extensive teaching experience at MBA, MSc, Doctoral-level and Executive Education courses and has taught internationally, across Europe (UK, France), Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong), and the GCC (UAE, Oman and Bahrain). She has also been Professor in Management at Edinburgh Business School, Senior Enterprise Fellow at University of Southampton and Research Fellow at INSEAD Business School. She is an experienced doctoral supervisor, examiner and reviewer, and has supervised successfully a number of doctoral students to completion. Professor Nicolopoulou has published in Human Resource Management (FT50 list), International Small Business Journal, British Journal of Management, Journal of Small Business Management, R&D Management, European Management Review, Organization & Environment, Business & Society, International Journal of Human Resource Management, and has edited seven journal Special Issues, including for Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, European Management Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research, as well as six books with E. Elgar, Routledge and Palgrave. She is an Associate Editor for the journals Gender, Work and Organization, as well as the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship. She is a Trademark Inventor (UK Trademarks Registry) and has 4 registered Invention Disclosures for innovative models of entrepreneurship development in diverse global contexts. Additionally, she has held practitioner roles in Strategic Affairs and Planning, and Corporate Social Responsibility for 5 consecutive years; she has been successfully engaged in mentoring and advisory of entrepreneurs in different regions, and has co-developed entrepreneurial ventures and engagement programmes from within an entrepreneurial family business context, which received an Award for their innovative approaches.

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