RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship and Dean of the Sauder School of Business at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 

Daniel Muzyka is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of entrepreneurship and corporate strategy. In addition to publishing in a number of management and entrepreneurship journals, he has edited and contributed to books and videos on entrepreneurship, including the Financial Times Mastering Entrepreneurship series (now translated into five languages) and Mastering Innovation series.

Daniel is a governor of the Vancouver Board of Trade, and served as chair of the organization from 2005 to 2006. He is a member of the organization's executive committee and its board of directors. He is also a member of the Premier's Technology Council and the British Columbia Competition Council, and serves on the Board of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada.

Prior to joining UBC, Daniel was the IAF Professor of Entrepreneurship at INSEAD, France, where he also served as associate dean of the MBA program and director of the 3i Venturelab. He was previously a faculty member at Babson College, and was a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School.

Daniel worked in finance and corporate strategy at the General Electric Company, and spent five years as a strategy consultant, primarily with Braxton Associates, Boston. He has also served as a board member for several entrepreneurial and growth business ventures.

Before pursuing a career in business, Daniel worked as a research associate in astrophysics for organizations including the NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy, Germany and the Owens Valley Radio Observatory at Caltech.

He has a BA in astrophysics from Williams College, an MBA in corporate strategy from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a DBA from the Harvard Business School.