Bettina Bastian

Bettina Bastian is Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the American University of Beirut. She received the PhD in Strategic Management from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland. Before going back for her PhD, she worked several years for the German Employer Federation, where she was involved in the development of projects for the second labor market and where she organized the association’s conferences. Dr. Bastian was co-founder and associate of two start-ups, Bluetree Finance and Atlaswiss, in Switzerland. Her primary area of interest is in entrepreneurship and innovation. Here she studies how the political and social environments, as well as institutional factors influence firms and entrepreneurs. She is also researching how technological changes brought about by the popularization of the internet affect entrepreneurs and their ecosystems in different countries. She has been publishing articles in renowned journals and her work was recognized at several international forums and conferences, including the AoM meetings, Strategic Management Society and Druid Conference. In 2013 she became co-founder and editor of the Journal of Advanced Research on Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation. Also in 2013 she co-started the Beirut Ethics Colloquium that brings together multidisciplinary participants on a weekly basis to learn and to discuss about ‘ethics’ from diverse angles. Dr. Bastian also holds a graduate degree in Political Science from the Free University of Berlin and a post-graduate Master in Energy Science and Engineering from EPFL and the Ecole du Petrole et des Moteurs, Paris. Since 2015 she joined the Mowgli network as mentor for entrepreneurs in Lebanon.