SAMEEKSHA DESAI Rm 227, SPEA, 1315 E. 10 th St, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, Phone: ;

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1 Rm 227, SPEA, 1315 E. 10 th St, Indiana University, Bloomington IN, Phone: ; CURRENT APPOINTMENT Indiana University, School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA), Bloomington, IN Assistant Professor, Associate Director, Institute for Development Strategies, AFFILIATIONS Global Entrepreneurship and Development Institute, Washington DC, USA Fellow, Ratio Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Associate Fellow, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, MO, USA Visiting Scholar, 2009 EDUCATION George Mason University Ph.D., 2008, Public Policy Dissertation: Essays on Entrepreneurship and Postconflict Reconstruction M.S., Conflict Analysis and Resolution Northwestern University BA, Sociology (International Studies) RELATED EXPERIENCE Technical University of Lisbon, Innovation Research Group (IN+), Libson, Portugal Visiting Researcher, 2011 July University of Missouri, Kansas City, Bloch School of Business, Kansas City, USA Assistant Professor, UN University World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki, Finland Contributor to occasional projects on entrepreneurial capacity conflict and entrepreneurs, measuring entrepreneurship in developing countries, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany External Research Fellow, Research Fellow, George Mason University, School of Public Policy, Fairfax, USA Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Graduate Assistant, School of Public Policy Counterpart International, Food Security/Sustainable Agriculture, Washington DC, USA Fellow, Additional information and previous writing/editing work available upon request

2 SPONSORED RESEARCH Principal Investigator, 2010, Entrepreneurship and Economic Development After Conflict, awarded by the Kauffman Foundation, for research on the drivers of entrepreneurial activity in postconflict recovery Principal Investigator, , Entrepreneurship in Southern Iraq, awarded by the U.S. Army, for research (project and survey design, data collection and analysis) on cityspecific business environment and actionable recommendations for improvement Project Manager and Researcher, 2007, Entrepreneurship literature project, awarded by the Kauffman Foundation (Principal Investigator Zoltan Acs) HONORS and RESEARCH AWARDS Bosch Foundation Fellow, Transatlantic Policy Consortium, 2011 University of Missouri Kansas City New Horizons award, 2009 Best paper award (with Johan Eklund) for Ownership, Economic Entrenchment and Allocation of Capital, Uddevalla Symposium, 2008 Fellowship in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, (joint fellowship of the Kauffman Foundation and Max Planck Institute), Ratio Institute grant award, Colloquium for Young Social Scientists, 2007 Kauffman Foundation fellowship, PhD entrepreneurship intensive, 2006 University of Paris grant, new institutional economics, 2006 Ph.D Fellowship, Center for Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, Ph.D Fellowship, George Mason University, TEACHING Indiana University: Graduate: Undergraduate: Economic Development, Globalization and Entrepreneurship Development Policy and Postconflict Recovery, capstone Case Studies in Policy Analysis Thesis supervision: Anisha Vichare - undergraduate honors University of Missouri, Kansas City: Undergraduate: Creating the Enterprise, capstone Creating New Ventures George Mason University: Graduate: Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Social Benefit SERVICE AND REVIEW ACTIVITIES Ad-hoc Reviewer, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice; Journal of Health Economics; Small Business Economics; Annals of Regional Science; Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences; Entrepreneurship and Regional Development; Journal of Cultural Economics 2010 Member, Development Committee, International Relations Council of Kansas City 2009 Guest Co-Editor, Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization special issue on experiments and entrepreneurship Session chair, Academy of Management Conference

3 Organizer (with David Audretsch and Isabell Welpe), Max Planck Institute 2009 Ringberg Conference on Experiments in Entrepreneurship 2008 Organizer, Professional Development Workshop on Experiments and Entrepreneurship, Academy of Management Conference Reviewer (entrepreneurship track), Academy of Management Conference Guest Co-Editor, Small Business Economics special issue on entrepreneurship and economic development 2007 Manager, Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Conference, Washington D.C. (Entrepreneurship, Economic Development & Public Policy) 2006 Reviewer, Elsevier book proposals for series on entrepreneurship Reviewer, International Conference on Green Competitiveness Reviewer for Competitive Papers (track: Women and Minority Entrepreneurship) USASBE Annual Meeting Indiana University: Member, hiring priorities committee, Public Finance Group, SPEA Member, MPA curriculum committee, SPEA Advisor, international development concentration, SPEA Member, international development MPA concentration committee, SPEA Member, conference committee - Center for Study of the Middle East Member, hiring committee - assistant professor, quantitative social science University of Missouri, Kansas City: Member, event committee on business in emerging economies Co-organizer, entrepreneurship and innovation workshops 2009 Member, hiring committee assistant professor of finance INVITED MEETINGS 2011 Speaker, Center for Constitutional Democracy, September 15, Bloomington Speaker, United States Air Force Judge Advocate General s Corps and the Center for Excellent in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Peace Operations and the Law Symposium, July 7, Chicago Presenter, Ratio Institute Colloquium on Property Rights, the Conditions for Enterprise and Economic Growth, June 16-18, Stockholm Participant, West Point Conference on Expeditionary Economics, February 15-17, West Point Panel, Heritage-George Mason Symposium on Entrepreneurship and Development, January 28, Washington D.C Speaker, Entrepreneurship and Transition, Lehigh University, March 30 Presenter, Expert Meeting on Enterprise Development Policies and Capacity Building in Science, Technology and Innovation (STI), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), January 20-22, Geneva 2009 Presenter, Roundtable on Entrepreneurship in Postconflict Economies Iraq, Kauffman Foundation, Kansas City, December 7 Panel presenter, Entrepreneurship in Iraq, Council on Foreign Relations, Washington D.C., June 23

4 Speaker, Entrepreneurship and Conflict, Lehigh University, August 28 Speaker, Entrepreneurship in Iraq, Ratio Institute, Stockholm, June 8 Presenter, Workshop on Entrepreneurship, Productivity and Economic Development, Imperial College, London, May Presenter, Workshop on Entrepreneurship and Conflict, UNU-WIDER and University of Ulster, Londonderry, March Speaker, Destructive Entrepreneurship, Technical University of Lisbon, Lisbon, March 13 SELECT ACADEMIC CONFERENCES 2011 Economic Theory, Policy and Applications, Athens Institute for Economic Research 2009 Academy of Management 2008 Workshop on Corporate Governance and Investment Academy of Management Conference Uddevalla Symposium, best paper award International Studies Association NE Conference International Schumpeter Society Conference Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference 2007 Max Planck/IISc Conference Worldwide Universities Network Conference Academy of Management Conference Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Conference Ratio Institute Colloquium for Young Social Scientists: Entrepreneurship, Institutions and Policies 2006 Mason Conference on Entrepreneurship Research International Conference on Management Case Studies International Council for Small Business World Conference European School on New Institutional Economics Uddevalla Symposium 2005 International Conference on Management Case Studies Mason Entrepreneurship Research Conference Media coverage and references available upon request

5 PUBLICATIONS Journal Desai, S., Acs, Z.J. and Weitzel, U. (forthcoming,) A Model of Destructive Entrepreneurship: Insight on Conflict and Postconflict Recovery, Journal of Conflict Resolution. Desai, S., Eklund, J. and Hogberg, A. (forthcoming) Promarket Reforms and Allocation of Capital in India, Journal of Financial Economic Policy. Desai, S. (forthcoming) Entrepreneurship and a Tale of Two Cities, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Acs, Z.J., Audretsch, D.B., Desai, S. and Welpe, I. (2010) On Experiments in Entrepreneurship Research, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76: 1-4. Weitzel, U., Urbig, D., Desai, S., Acs, Z.J. and Sanders, M. (2010) Allocation of Entrepreneurial Talent and Other-regarding Behavior, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 76: Acs, Z.J., Desai, S. and Klapper, L. (2008) What Does Entrepreneurship Data Really Show? Small Business Economics, 31(3): Acs, Z.J., Desai, S. and Hessels, J. (2008) Entrepreneurship, Economic Development and Institutions, Small Business Economics, 31(3): Sany, J. and Desai, S. (2008) Transnational Ethnic Groups and Conflict: The Zaghawa in Chad and Sudan, Conflict Trends, 2008/2: Desai, S. (2006) An Introduction to the Potential of Microfinance in Postconflict Economies, Journal of Insurance and Risk Management, IV(7): Books and book chapters Desai, S., Stough, R. and Nijkamp, P. (2011) (eds) New Directions in Regional Economic Development The Role of Entrepreneurship Theory, Practice and Policy, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Desai, S. (2011) Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, in Naude, W. (Ed) Entrepreneurship and Economic Development, Studies in Development Economics and Policy, Palgrave-MacMillan. McGrath, R.G. and Desai, S. (2010) Connecting The Study of Entrepreneurship with Theories of Capitalist Progress, in Acs, Z.J. and Audretsch, D.B. (eds.) Handbook of Entrepreneurship Research: An Interdisciplinary Survey and Introduction, second edition, Springer. Acs, Z.J., Phillips, R., Audretsch, D.B. and Desai, S. (2007) Nonmarket Source of American Entrepreneurial Capitalism: Entrepreneurial-Philanthropy Nexus, in Shockley, G. et al (Eds) Nonmarket Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Edward Elgar, invited. Desai, S. and Acs, Z.J. (2007) Democratic Capitalism and Philanthropy, in Acs, Z.J. and Stough, R.R. (Eds) Public Policy in an Entrepreneurial Society, Springer. Stough, R.R., Desai, S., O Neill, P., Haynes, K. and Thatchenkerry, T. (2004) Public Issues in Governance in India, monograph, AIMA.

6 Reports and policy briefs Desai, S. (2010) Entrepreneurship in Iraq: Understanding the Constraints Angle, UN System economic development newsletter, invited Desai, S. and LeCroy, J. (2009) Entrepreneurship in Southern Iraq Najaf, report prepared for the U.S. Army/Multinational Division Command-South. Desai, S. and LeCroy, J. (2009) Entrepreneurship in Southern Iraq Amarah, report prepared for the U.S. Army/Multinational Division Command-South. Desai, S. (2009) Measuring Entrepreneurship in Developing Countries, UNU-WIDER Research Paper 2009/10, March. Acs, Z.J, Desai, S. and Klapper, L. (2008) What Does Entrepreneurship Data Really Show? A Comparison of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor and World Bank Group Datasets, World Bank Policy Research Paper 4667, July, Development Research Group, World Bank: Washington D.C. Desai, S. (2005) Microfinance in Iraq, Global Studies Review, Fall. Work in progress Learning From Pirates: A Scalable Business Model Do No Harm in Disaster Management? Considerations of Development, Source and Time Destructive Entrepreneurship in a Subset of LICS, with Z. Acs and U. Weitzel Social Capital and Entrepreneurs, with F. Chowdhury and D. Audretsch Ownership, Economic Entrenchment, Capital Allocation, with J. Eklund Functional Efficiency of Capital Markets, with J. Eklund Entrepreneurs and Conflict Recovery Energy-Based Economic Development in an International Context, with S. Carley and M. Bazilian