De Gruyter Handbook of Entrepreneurial Finance

David Lingelbach (B.S., M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Ph.D., University of Exeter) is an associate professor of entrepreneurship at the Merrick School of Business, University of Baltimore. His research focuses on entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial finance in emerging and developing economies, and oligarch studies. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of Management Inquiry, Venture Capital: An International Journal of Entrepreneurial Finance, and International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation. He is also co-author of Entrepreneurship in Africa: Context and Perspectives, the first international textbook in the discipline focused on that continent. He has founded or co-founded nine startups in the for- and non-profit sectors and previously served as CEO of Bank of America’s businesses in the former Soviet Union and President of one of post-communist Russia’s first venture capital funds. He has advised the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, the Asia Foundation, and the government of Indonesia on venture capital and entrepreneurship development. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to Myanmar and a Fulbright Specialist to Colombia and has been nominated twice for an Andrew Carnegie Fellowship. He is currently writing a commercial nonfiction book about oligarchs.