Entrepreneurship in Developing and Emerging Econom

Ali J. Ahmad teaches innovation at WMG, University of Warwick, UK, as a senior teaching fellow. He was born and schooled in Karachi, Pakistan. He has an MSc in information systems awarded by the London School of Economics and Political Science, another MSc in management research awarded by the University of Oxford’s Said Business School and a PhD in entrepreneurship from Dublin City University. He has a decade of experience in teaching and scholarship in the areas of entrepreneurship and innovation; his articles on technology and business incubation and social innovation and entrepreneurship are regularly published in reputable international journals. His teaching, research and consulting activity is spread across Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and India. He has supervised over 100 projects of final-year students and co-supervised a number of PhDs in the area of entrepreneurship. He also started up three ventures in Pakistan as CEO and prides himself on having first-hand experience of doing entrepreneurship in a developing country context. Ali has wide-ranging interests, but most of all he enjoys motorcycling and practising Muay Thai.

Punita Bhatt is a research fellow at Aston University’s Centre for Research in Ethnic Minority Entrepreneurship. She has a PhD in business from Oxford Brookes University, an MA in economics and an MBA in finance from India.

She was born in Allahabad, India, and did her schooling from Indian School, Muscat. She has over a decade of teaching experience in entrepreneurship and innovation in leading business schools in UK. She has supervised hundreds of master’s dissertations and entrepreneurship projects at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Before joining academia, she headed Sony Corporation’s treasury in India and founded a start-up IT firm delivering multimedia solutions to schools.

Iain Acton is co-founder and partner at Disruptive Lemonade, which builds innovation and entrepreneurial capabilities by providing coaching and training programmes for individuals, teams and organizations. Over the last 15 years, he has worked fluidly between academia and business consulting, specializing in customer-led innovation projects, designing management practice, marketing strategy and entrepreneurship. He supervises students on University of Warwick’s MSc Innovation and Entrepreneurship programme and teaches the innovation module internationally for WMG, University of Warwick. He has a significant track record of delivering entrepreneurship programmes in collaboration with UK universities, business consulting services and strategic customer research programmes at multinational companies (such as Jaguar Land Rover), UK-based start-ups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). His key strength is his multidisciplinary knowledge of design, marketing and business innovation strategy