Dr Gül Berna Özcan is a Reader in International Business and Entrepreneurship. She is working for Royal Holloway, University of London (The school of School of Management Strategy, International Business and Entrepreneurship). She has written extensively on international business, small and medium-sized enterprises, entrepreneurship, political economy of decentralisation, and capital formations, utilising both quantitative and qualitative methods, including ethnographic and sociological techniques. Presently, Dr Özcan research deals with the following themes: i) enterprise governance in oligarchic markets; ii) moral reasoning in entrepreneurship; iii) addressing poverty, exclusion and conflict through business solutions; iv) the political economy of new entrepreneurial classes in Turkey and post-Soviet Central Asia. Dr Özcan has a longstanding interest in policy-oriented research and have received numerous awards including the Robert McNamara Fellowship of the World Bank (1998-1999), a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship (2005-2007) and the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2008-2009). She was a lead author for the UNDP project on business solutions to poverty reduction in Eastern Europe and the CIS between 2008 and 2010. The project report, launched in March 2011, includes 19 case studies and has been translated into many languages.