Inclusive Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals

Colette Henry is an academic manager and educator, with an international research profile in entrepreneurship education and gender. She is Head of Department of Business Studies at Dundalk Institute of Technology, Ireland; Adjunct Professor, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, and Visiting Professor, Oxford Brookes University, UK. Her previous roles include Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurship at UiT-The Arctic University of Norway; Norbrook Professor of Business & Enterprise (Royal Veterinary College, London) and President of the Institute for Small Business & Entrepreneurship, London. She is the 2017 Sten K Johnson European Entrepreneurship Education Laureate.

Slavica Singer is Professor Emerita of Entrepreneurship at the J.J. Strossmayer University in Osijek, Croatia. Slavica’s research focus is on connecting a holistic approach with understanding of entrepreneurship as a mindset, the role of small businesses in economic development, the gender gap in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship ecosystems and the role of the entrepreneurial university in the Quintuple Helix model. Since 2010, she has led the interdisciplinary interuniversity doctoral programme ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATIVENESS. She also leads the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) research team in Croatia. She is often engaged by the OECD as a consultant/expert in the field of reviewing national policies on entrepreneurship, inclusivity, and entrepreneurship education. For her contribution to the development of research/university-based entrepreneurship education, she was awarded the UNESCO Chair in Entrepreneurship Education (2008), and an honorary doctorate from Turku School of Economics, Finland (2010). In 2021, she received the European Entrepreneurship Education Award, from Lund University, Sweden.

Jian Gao is Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the School of Economics and Management and the Director of Entrepreneurship Research Center on G20 Economies at Tsinghua University. Since 2001 he has been the team leader of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor in China and has released 16 annual reports on GEM China between 2003 and 2020. He served as the academic director of the Tsinghua-HEC Women Entrepreneurship Program sponsored by Goldman Sachs from 2009-2016 and the academic director of Tsinghua-UC Berkeley Global Technology Entrepreneurship Program from 2009-2014.

Jacqueline Winstanley, FRSA, is Founder and CEO of Universal Inclusion and the Inclusive Entrepreneur Network, a recognised international expert and strategist on inclusion and accessibility challenges, and a thought leader in the reduction of global inequalities. Jacqueline’s work is recognised as good practice in the UK and internationally. She has built an audit trail in proof of concept and outcomes, most notably in Inclusive Economic Growth, Inclusive Entrepreneurship, Workforce Retention, Inclusive Play and Childcare, and Parks and Open Spaces. She has also influenced significant changes in government policy in the UK and recently set up and provided support for the Secretariat for the All Party Parliamentary Group for Inclusive Entrepreneurship. Jacqueline regularly presents at high level gatherings at the UN, in Windsor and Westminster. She is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Innovation Management Research, Birkbeck, University of London and a Research Associate, Lancaster University.

Dinah Bennett is the founder/director of International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise and Global Lead for Entrepreneurship at Weiforward.org. Outcomes from her 20 years at Durham University on successful SME development have been disseminated via books, BBC Television Series and training programmes internationally. Over the past 18 years, Dinah has worked extensively with the banking community in the UK and overseas developing and delivering capacity building programmes to bank managers and decision makers to ensure a better enabling environment for SMEs. In 2005 she was awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion and in 2011 an OBE in recognition of her support for women’s entrepreneurship. She has been an Adviser to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship and the European Commission Economic and Social Committee. In Dec 2016 Dinah was Awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the UK Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE).