Soumodip Sarkar

Soumodip Sarkar is currently Vice-Rector for Innovation, Cooperation and Entrepreneurship at the University of Évora, Portugal, as well as Full Professor at the Department of Management and researcher at the Center for Advanced Studies in Management and Economics at the University of Évora – CEFAGE, where he is also coordinator of the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. He was also the first Dean of the pioneering Doctoral School, IIFA, at the same University, from 2010-2014.

He obtained his PhD in Economics from Northeastern University, Boston, in 1995. He worked at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID) and later at the CID, Kennedy School, at Harvard University. Author of several articles in high impact scientific journals, he is the Scientific Coordinator of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, GEM in Portugal, and, internationally, part of the CEEMAN accreditation team.

Regular presence in both national and international media, including the Economist and BBC, in matters of entrepreneurship and innovation, Professor Sarkar is fellow at Harvard University’s Asia Center, and has already been considered by the World Economic Forum as one of the 100 leading experts in Innovation.

His current research interests include innovation (especially related to implications of artificial intelligent, and the rise of China), entrepreneurship and sustainability, as well as the immersive virtual world of the metaverse.

Currently, Professor Sarkar is also the Executive President of the Science Park of Alentejo region (PACT), a project that aims to position the Portuguese region of Alentejo as a global reference innovation center..