Jay Mitra is a Professor of Business Enterprise and Innovation at Essex Business School, University of Essex.  He is also a Visiting Professor at Leuphana University in Luneburg Germany, and Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. He has held similar positions at the School of Management, Fudan University, and the School of Public Policy at Jilin University, both in China, at Bologna University, Italy and at the Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad, India. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK and has acted as a Scientific Adviser to the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development), as the Head of the Scientific Committee on Entrepreneurship for the OECD's Centre for Entrepreneurship and the LEED (Local Economic and Employment) Programme.  Prof. Mitra also leads the International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF), a unique network and forum for researchers, policy-makers and business practitioners working on entrepreneurship, innovation and regional development issues. The IEF has organised 18 international and refereed conferences on entrepreneurship, innovation a and  His current research focuses on entrepreneurship and human and social capital, female entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship and innovation, economic and social development in countries around the world, under his leadership. He is editor of the Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Economies, published by Sage, and a member of editorial boards of several refereed international journals. He has written widely and published in international refereed journal articles, book chapters and business magazine articles, on the subject of entrepreneurship, innovation economic and social development for refereed journals and business magazines. His most recent books are 'Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Economic Development' , 2nd ed (2020), published by Routledge, The Business of Innovation (2017), published by Sage, 'Entrepreneurship and Knowledge Exchange, (2015), both published by Routledge.