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Dr. Donald Siegel is Regents Professor and Foundtion Professor of Public Policy and Management in the School of Public Affairs (SPA) and Co-Executive Director of the Global Center for Technology Transfer at Arizona State University. He served as Director of SPA from 2017-2022 and as Dean of the School of Business at the University at Albany, SUNY from 2008-2016. Don received his bachelor’s degree in economics and his master’s and doctoral degrees in business economics from Columbia University. He then served as a Sloan Foundation post-doctoral fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Siegel has also taught at SUNY-Stony Brook, the University of Nottingham, RPI, where was he was Chair of the Economics Department, and the University of California-Riverside, where he served as Associate Dean for Graduate Studies.
Professor Siegel is co-Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal and a former editor of the Journal of Technology Transfer, the Journal of Management Studies, and Academy of Management Perspectives, an associate editor of the Journal of Productivity Analysis, a former associate editor of the Journal of Business Venturing and Academy of Management Learning and Education, and serves on the editorial boards of many leading journals. He has also co-edited 59 special issues of leading journals in management and economics. He is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Academy of Management (AOM) and in 2020, was elected Dean of the AOM Fellows.
He is the 2026 winner of the Global Award for Entrepreneurship Research.
Dr. Siegel has published 157 articles in refereed journals, 21 book chapters and 14 books on issues relating to university technology transfer and entrepreneurship, the effects of corporate governance on performance, productivity analysis, the economic effects of gambling, and corporate and environmental social responsibility in such leading journals as the American Economic Review, Economic Journal, The Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Research Policy, Public Administration Review, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Perspectives, Academy of Management Learning & Education, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of International Business Studies, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, Personnel Psychology, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Management. His most recent books are the Oxford Handbook of Corporate Social Responsibility: Psychological and Organizational Perspectives and the Chicago Handbook of University Technology Transfer and Academic Entrepreneurship (University of Chicago Press). His citation count, according to Google Scholar, is 96,654 (h-index: 120). According to a recent study, he was ranked #29 in the U.S. and #42 in the world in the field of business and management (out of 44,495 academics), in terms of scholarly productivity and impact.
Don has received over $10.7 million in grants or fellowships from the Sloan Foundation, NSF, Kauffman Foundation, NBER, American Statistical Association, W. E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, and the U.S. Department of Labor. His most recent NSF grants involve the first major attempt to collect and analyze data on management practices and organizational issues in technology transfer at the NIH and other federal labs, efforts to involve tribal communities in technology-based economic development. Siegel also served as a consultant or advisor to the U.N., the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, the Council on Competitiveness, the U.K., Italian, and Swedish governments, the Department of Justice, the Environmental Protection Agency, Chase Manhattan, Securities Industry Association, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs & Co, Deloitte and Touche, and the National Association of Manufacturers. Siegel was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Commerce on “Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy” and a member of New York Governor David Patterson’s Small Business Task Force. He recently served as Co-Chair of a NASEM Committee on “Advancing Commercialization from the Federal Laboratories.” He previously chaired a NASEM Committee on “Best Practice in National Innovation Programs for Flexible Electronics” and was a member of NASEM committee evaluating the Small Business Innovation Research Program
