Dr. Donald Siegel is Dean of the School of Business and Professor of Management at the University at Albany, SUNY. Dr. Siegel also serves as President of the Technology Transfer Society, a non-profit organization devoted to the interdisciplinary scholarly analysis of entrepreneurship and technology transfer from universities and federal laboratories to firms.  He received his bachelor’s degree in economics and his master’s and doctoral degrees in business economics from Columbia University. After receiving his Ph.D., he was an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research, under the supervision of the late Zvi Griliches at Harvard.   He has taught at SUNY-Stony Brook, Arizona State University, the University of Nottingham, RPI, where was he was Chair of the Economics Department, and the University of California-Riverside, where he served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies.  Dr. Siegel is an editor of Academy of Management Perspectives and the Journal of Technology Transfer, an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, and serves on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Learning & Education, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Corporate Governance: An International Review, and Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal.  He has also co-edited 30 special issues of leading journals in economics, management, and finance. 

Don was recently ranked #2 in the world for academic research on university entrepreneurship and #760 in the world among academic economists.  He has published 96 articles and 6 books on issues relating to university technology transfer and entrepreneurship, the effects of corporate governance on economic performance, productivity analysis, and corporate and environmental social responsibility in such leading journals in economics, finance, and management as the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Research Policy, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Management. His most recent books are Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change (Oxford University Press) and the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility (Oxford University Press).  He is currently co-editing the Handbook of University Technology Transfer (University of Chicago Press) and the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Governance (Oxford University Press).