Ant Bozkaya

Dr. Ant Bozkaya is Lecturer and Visiting Scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School jointly with the Innovation Policy and the Economy Fellowship at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Ant is also Senior Research Fellow in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Universite Libre de Bruxelles. Ant's research interests include policy for innovation and financing of young innovative ventures. Much of his work examines the ways in which financial intermediaries and institutional organizations impact the nature of innovation and entrepreneurship. He also develops teaching materials in entrepreneurial finance and international entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School. His recent publications include Financing Entrepreneurship (with Phil Auerswald, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008) and Entrepreneurial Finance: Financing of Young Innovative Ventures (Verlag Publishing, 2009). Ant was Founder and Director of the Project on Technological Innovation and Turkey (2008-09) at Harvard Kennedy School and Research Fellow (2005-09) at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School. Ant was awarded a Science, Technology, and Public Policy Fellowship (2005-07) to conduct his doctoral dissertation research at Harvard University and holds a PhD in Economics and Management Science and an MBA from Universite Libre de Bruxelles. He was president and CEO of Bilkent Holding Technology, Healthcare, and Power Group, Turkey. During his tenure, he started-up a number of ventures including Meteksan information technology group, Bilkent healthcare and hospital construction companies, and Bilkent electric-power generation (with Rolls-Royce Power Ventures). Ant also held senior positions in management consulting with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) at its Istanbul, London, and Sydney offices.