Dean Steven C. Currall

Steven C. Currall
Dean and Professor of Management
Graduate School of Management
University of California, Davis

Steve Currall is Dean and Professor in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. He has conducted research and taught for over 20 years on organizational psychology topics such as innovation, emerging technologies, negotiation, and corporate governance.

At the invitation of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Currall was a member of the Nanotechnology Technical Advisory Group. He has been a grantee on $17,633,893 in external funding of which over 80% came from refereed research grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Currall's research has been published in management, psychology, and science/engineering academic journals. He has served on numerous editorial review boards.

He has served as a member of the boards of the University of California Global Health Institute, BioHouston, and Leadership in Medicine, Inc. He has been quoted over 400 times in publications such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, The Economist (UK), Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Business Week magazine, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television and the Nightly Business Report.

Currall was formerly Vice Dean of Enterprise and Professor of Management Science and Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at University College London (UCL). He was Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Entrepreneurship and Faculty Co-Director of the Institute of Technology at London Business School. At UCL, he was founding Chair of the Department of Management Science and Innovation. Currall was the William and Stephanie Sick Professor of Entrepreneurship in the Brown School of Engineering at Rice University and tenured Associate Professor of Management, Psychology, and Statistics in the Jones Graduate School of Management. In 2003, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business.