Dane Stangler is a senior advisor to the Global Entrepreneurship Network where he helps ensure that resources spent on new policies and programs to support entrepreneurs are based on robust research and validated data. 

In addition to his role with GEN, Stangler is a fellow at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank that focuses on policy solutions that are the product of informed deliberations by former elected and appointed officials, business and labor leaders, and academics and advocates who represent both sides of the political spectrum.

Formerly, he was the Visiting Vorzimer Professor of Entrepreneurship at LIU-Post, Director of Policy Innovations at the Progressive Policy Institute, and Vice-President of Research & Policy at the Kauffman Foundation.