Purdue University

Nathalie Duval-Couetil is the Director of the Certificate in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program, Associate Director of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, and a faculty member in the department of Technology Leadership and Innovation at Purdue University. She is responsible for the launch and development of the university’’s multidisciplinary undergraduate entrepreneurship program, which has involved over 5,000 students from all majors since 2005. As part of the program, she has established entrepreneurship capstone, global entrepreneurship, and women and leadership courses and initiatives. She received her BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, her MBA from Babson College, and Ph.D. from Purdue. Prior to her work in academia, Dr. Duval-Couetil spent several years in the field of market research and business strategy consulting in Europe and the United States with Booz Allen and Hamilton and Data and Strategies Group. She currently serves on the board of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship in the role of Vice President for Research.