Faculty Experts

Maria Minniti

Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy

Minniti is the Bantle Chair in Entrepreneurship and Public Policy and serves as director of the Institute for an Entrepreneurial Society.

Her primary research interests include entrepreneurship and economic growth, institutions, government and organizational emergence.

Prior to joining the Whitman School, Minniti was professor and Bobby B. Lyle Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Minniti has previously taught at Babson College, Skidmore College and New York University, and has held visiting positions at the London Business School, the Max Planck Institute, Humboldt University, and the Copenhagen Business School.

Since 2015, Minniti is also Visiting Distinguished Professor in the Department of Management at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.