Dr. Alan
L. Carsrud
Alan L. Carsrud is Clinical Professor
of Management, Professor of Industrial Engineering and
Executive Director of the Global Entrepreneurship
Center
at Florida International University. Prior to coming to FIU, he was Senior Lecturer & Academic
Coordinator of the Price Center at the Anderson School and Senior Lecturer in
Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. He founded
the UCLA Venture Development and Global Access Programs, which help create new
technology-based
ventures in Australia, Chile, Finland, France, Italy, Mexico, and the United
States.
Carsrud was on the start-up team at
People Express Airlines and served as Founding Director
of CytoSignal,
a biotech firm in Irvine. He was on the Board of Stonefield
Josephson Accountants (Santa Monica) and HUB Capital
Ltd. (Brisbane, QLD) and Andean Mining Technologies (Santiago,
Chile). He currently is on the board of United Enterprise
Fund (UEF) in New York City. He has directed the graduate
Entrepreneurship programs at the University of Texas
at
Austin and the University
of
Southern California, and has taught at Pepperdine University,
Nangang Technological University in Singapore, Anahuac
University (Mexico City) and Australian Graduate
School of Management in Sydney. He is also Docent at Abo Akademi University
in Turku, Finland.
Carsrud has served as Vice-President
for both the International Council for Small Business and
the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship
and was on the Board of Directors of the Family Firm Institute.
Dr. Carsrud was Founding Associate Editor of Entrepreneurship
and Regional Development and was on the editorial board
of Family Business Review, Entrepreneurship: Theory and
Practice, and the Journal of Small Business Management.
Dr. Carsrud has a bachelor’s degree
in psychology, sociology and anthropology from Texas Christian
University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in social psychology
from the University of New Hampshire.

Dr. Carsrud at the Istanbul Kültür Üniversitesi Conference for
their Faculty of Economics & Administrative Sciences.
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