Hala Hattab

Biography

Hala Hattab is a lecturer in Business Administration/Entrepreneurship at the British University in Egypt and Programme Manager for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor-Egypt. In 2007, she obtained her Ph.D. in female entrepreneurship and added to her professional career a new academic dimension that covers research as well as teaching. Dr. Hattab has special interest in issues related to Entrepreneurship, especially in the Arab world. Her areas of interest include entrepreneurship education, social entrepreneurship and youth and women entrepreneurship and she has published articles in International Journals discussing these topics. Dr. Hattab is the author of the first report discussing entrepreneurship in Egypt and won the Best Paper Award presented in The Annual Conference of Economic Forum of Entrepreneurship & International Business, Cairo – Egypt 2011. She is a member of editorial board of the journal for economics and business "Economic Review” and a regular reviewer for entrepreneurship-specialised Journals and conferences (e.g. DIANA conference, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship). She has been one of Judges in different business plan competitions to support start-ups in Egypt and Middle East (Google’s Ebda2, OECD’s MENA 100), Founding Member of the Middle East Council for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship, Egypt and a mentor for new start-ups. Hala Hattab is a lecturer in Business Administration/Entrepreneurship at the British University in Egypt and Programme Manager for the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor-Egypt. In 2007, she obtained her Ph.D. in female entrepreneurship and added to her professional career a new academic dimension that covers research as well as teaching. Dr. Hattab has special interest in issues related to Entrepreneurship, especially in the Arab world. Her areas of interest include entrepreneurship education, social entrepreneurship and youth and women entrepreneurship and she has published articles in International Journals discussing these topics. Dr. Hattab is the author of the first report discussing entrepreneurship in Egypt and won the Best Paper Award presented in The Annual Conference of Economic Forum of Entrepreneurship & International Business, Cairo – Egypt 2011. She is a member of editorial board of the journal for economics and business "Economic Review” and a regular reviewer for entrepreneurship-specialised Journals and conferences (e.g. DIANA conference, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship). She has been one of Judges in different business plan competitions to support start-ups in Egypt and Middle East (Google’s Ebda2, OECD’s MENA 100), Founding Member of the Middle East Council for Small Businesses and Entrepreneurship, Egypt and a mentor for new start-ups.

Research Interest

Entrepreneurship^Business Planning^Mentorship^