2012 Keynote Speaker

Benson Honig, PhD Teresa Cascioli Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Benson Honig (Ph.D. Stanford University) is the Teresa Cascioli Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. Studying entrepreneurship worldwide, his research interests include business planning, nascent entrepreneurship, transnational entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, social capital, and entrepreneurship in environments of transition. 

He has published widely in leading academic journals and the media, and serves on six editorial boards, including the Journal of Business Venturing and the Journal of Management Studies. He is immediate past president of the CCSBE (Canadian Counsel of Small Business and Entrepreneurship), is on the board of the Babson Entrepreneurship Conference as well as the Africa Academy of Management, and is currently an editor for Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

He is the 2009 winner (with Per Davidsson) of the Grief price from the University of Southern California for the most cited entrepreneurship article in the previous five years, and is also the winner of the most cited article for the Journal of Business Venturing in 2009.

He has published in the Journal of Management, Journal of Business Venturing, Academy of Management, Learning and Education, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, European Management Journal, Journal of Small Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development and the Journal of World Business, among others.