Simonetta Manfredi is Professor of Equality and Diversity Management, and Director of Research, Innovation and Enterprise at Oxford Brookes University in the UK. Formerly Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Exchange in the Business School where she founded the Centre for Diversity Policy and Practice in 2004.
Her research recently has focused on increasing the participation of women researchers in STEM as founders of university spinout companies which has informed recommendations for policy makers to promote gender inclusive academic entrepreneurship.
She is co-author of Managing Equality and Diversity, published by Oxford University Press, which received the Chartered Management Institute Management Book of the Year Award in 2013 (under the management and leadership category).
