David Anthony Kirby (born 2 April 1945) is a British academic working in the area of

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and entrepreneurship. From 2007, Kirby served as the founding Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration, Economics and Political Science at the British University in Egypt.

Education

Kirby studied Geography at

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(BA, 1966) and completed a PhD in Social Sciences at the same institution (1969), where he worked concurrently as a part-time tutor within the Department of Geography.

Career

He is currently Vice President (Research, Enterprise and Community Service) in the British University in Egypt, where he has been employed since 2007, initially as Founding Dean and Vodafone Chair of Business Administration. Prior to that appointment he was a professor of entrepreneurship at the

University of Surrey The University of Surrey is a public research university in Guildford, Surrey, England. The university received its Royal Charter, royal charter in 1966, along with a Plate glass university, number of other institutions following recommendations ...

in Guildford, UK, having held the UK's first chair in Entrepreneurship at the

University of Durham Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837. It was the first recognised university to ...

in 1989. He is a pioneer of entrepreneurship education in the UK and in 2006 was awarded the

Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion The Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion is one of the Queen's Awards for Enterprise, and is awarded annually to people who play an outstanding role in promoting the growth of business enterprise and/or entrepreneurial skills in other people ...

References

External links

David A. Kirby faculty profile
Queen's Award for Enterprise Promotion (2006) British businesspeople 1945 births Living people Academics of the University of Surrey Alumni of the College of the Venerable Bede, Durham Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts {{UK-business-bio-1940s-stub