Biography
Professor Saul Estrin is an Emeritus Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy in the Department of Management at LSE. His areas of research include labour economics, economic development and entrepreneurship. He was formerly Adecco Professor of Business and Society at London Business School where he was also Deputy Dean (Faculty and Research) for six years and the Director of the Centre for New and Emerging Markets, which analyses private sector development in emerging markets. Saul has published more than one hundred scholarly articles and books. His books include Privatisation in Central and Eastern Europe; Foreign Direct Investment into Transition Economies; and Investment Strategies in Emerging Markets. He has also published numerous papers in scholarly journals including Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, European Economic Review, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Industrial Economics and Journal of Comparative Economics.
Current areas of research include:
- Entrepreneurship and employment creation
- Entrepreneurial activity, entrepreneurship types and institutions
- New sources of finance for entrepreneurial companies: Crowdfunding