David A. Kirby is Vodafone Professor of Business Administration and Founding Dean of  the  Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science at The British University in Egypt, where he is a member of the University’s Senior Management Team.

He holds an adjunct Professorship at the University of South Australia and Visiting Chairs at Loughborough and Reading Universities in the UK. He was a pioneer of entrepreneurship education in the UK, for which he was awarded in 2006, the prestigious Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion.

He is a former Director of the UK Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Association of Business Schools, and a former Senior Vice President  and Director of the International Council for Small Business. He has been elected to  a Fellowship of the Institute of Business Advisers and was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) for his contribution to the Society’s Education for Capability Programme.

He has sat on several Government bodies including most recently a Department for Education and Skills Working Party to consider how Universities may work more closely with Small Firms and a Working Party of the National Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership. He has published 130 journal articles and 18 books and research monographs, including “Entrepreneurship” (McGraw-Hill, 2003). His research is currently focusing on Entrepreneurship Education and Social Entrepreneurship in Egypt and on Entrepreneurial Universities, and he is the Research leader for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Project in Egypt.

David A. Kirby is participating in the Responding to HE internationalisation session.