Background

Professor Julie Logan was the founding Director of Simfonec, an Enterprise Centre for the Royal Veterinary College, King's and Queen Mary College, led by Cass business School at City University. Its mission is to deliver science ideas to the commercial marketplace via education, mentoring and access to networks and funding.

Professor Logan has an extensive background in entrepreneurship and business education including leadership, marketing, new venture creation and commercialisation of university research. In her previous appointment at Bristol University, she developed entrepreneurship teaching for the Graduate School of International Business and the engineering and science faculties. Prior to this Professor Logan worked in the field of social enterprise developing programmes funded by the UK government to build management capacity and a small business support infrastructure in Bosnia, Vietnam, India and Kenya.

Previous positions have included: Director of Academic Studies for the MBA and Executive MBA at the University of Bristol, Head of the International Small Business Centre. She was Director of the Firm Start and Business Growth Programmes at Bristol and joint director of the Graduate Enterprise programme. Her role within the SME community at Bristol included: providing training for the small business advisors for Business Link and for Business in the Community and providing consultancy to the Welsh Development Agency, local enterprise agencies, KPMG, the ACCA and small business.

Professor Logan is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. Julie has worked as Visiting Professor at the Centre for Academic Leadership, University of Illinois. She has an active interest in studying government policy on innovation and entrepreneurship, but also entrepreneurship education, third age entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs with disabilities; having previously published work on the links between dyslexia, education and entrepreneurship funded by the Kauffman Foundation and the British Dyslexia Association.

Professor Logan (together with Professor Chris Hendry) has completed a study of "Barriers and Pathways to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Minority Groups within the UK". This research was funded by Microsoft. Her most recent work is The Every Day Entrepreneur report for Avon which was launched in April 2012.

Experience includes: directorships and positions on a number of boards; having been a Fellow of the Institute of Business Advisors. She comes from a family of serial entrepreneurs, and has first hand experience of business start up and small business management including raising investment funding. Professor Logan is a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Contacts

Room number: 4063
T: +44 (0)20 7040 4141
E: J.Logan@city.ac.uk
H: www.cass.city.ac.uk/experts/J.Logan