Conference Keynote Speakers and Panelists

PROF. DANA T. REDFORD

Founder and President of the Policy Experimentation & Evaluation Platform (PEEP) and co-coordinated of SG4Africa, Portugal

Prof. Dana T. Redford is the International Project Coordinator of SG4Africa. He is also the Founder and President of PEEP and an internationally recognized expert on entrepreneurship and public policy. He has worked with the US Department of Commerce, the European Commission, the OECD, the UN and various European and African governments. In 2010, his entrepreneurship course at the UCP-Porto was cited as one of eight best practices by the OECD. He was the International Coordinator of the largest policy experimentation project on experiential entrepreneurship education in primary and secondary schools in the EU, and he was the content coordinator for high-impact entrepreneurship in the CONEEECT project for training entrepreneurship educators in higher education. He was previously Faculty Coordinator and Guest Lecturer at the Haas School of Business, Center for Executive Education at UC-Berkeley. His latest book (2017) is Developing Africa’s Financial Services - The Importance of High-Impact Entrepreneurship, and his prior book (2014) the Entrepreneurial University Handbook is now in paperback.