Biography Steve Currall is Dean and Professor of Management in the Graduate School of Management at the University of California, Davis. Currall is a behavioral scientist and has conducted research and taught for 20 years on the psychology of the workplace relating to topics such as innovation, emerging technologies, negotiation, and corporate governance. Prior to joining UC Davis, Currall served as an engineering school’s vice dean and founding chair of an academic department. He also has held an endowed professorship in an engineering school. 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 (2007-2008). 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). He was principle investigator of an NSF-funded study of technology innovation in 22 NSF-funded engineering research centers in the United States. Currall earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Cornell University, a M.Sc. in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics (as a Rotary International Scholar), and a B.A. (cum laude) in Psychology from Baylor University. His research has been published in both management and science/engineering academic journals such as Organization Science, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, Personnel Psychology, Journal of International Business Studies, and Nature Nanotechnology among others. Currall has served as a member of the editorial review boards of Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Group and Organization Management. He received Stanford University’s Price Foundation Innovative Entrepreneurship Educator Award, Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award®(Supporter of Entrepreneurship category, Gulf Coast-Houston region), and the Grand Velocity Award for Academic Entrepreneurship, Indiana University. He was listed among “Outstanding Faculty” in Business Week’s Guide to Best Business Schools. He was formerly Vice Dean of Enterprise and Professor of Management Science and Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering Sciences at University College London (UCL) as well as Visiting Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Entrepreneurship and Faculty Co-Director of the Institute of Technology at London Business School. He was founding Chair of the Department of Management Science and Innovation at UCL. Currall was formerly 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. He was Founding Director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, which is a Rice University education and research center that is a partnership of the Schools of Engineering, Management and Natural Sciences. During Currall’s five-year tenure leading the Alliance, it assisted in the launch of over 160 technology start-up companies, which raised in excess of $300,000,000 in equity capital. The Alliance attracted over $4,500,000 in external funding. Currall also founded the Rice University Business Plan Competition, which involved the largest number of competing universities (36) and richest prize money ($325,000) of any graduate student business plan competition in the world. In 2003, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business. Currall is a member of the boards of the University of California Global Health Institute, BioHouston (Interim Vice Chair; Executive Committee; chair of Governance Committee), Leadership in Medicine, Inc., and Nanotechnology Foundation of Texas. He previously served on the Executive Advisory Council of Interferometrics, Inc. a venture-funded medical device start-up. He has advised organizations such as Schlumberger, BMC Software, BP, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, and Shell. He has been quoted over 400 times in publications such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist (UK), Financial Times, Business Week magazine, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) television and the Nightly Business Report. Prior to attending graduate school, he worked as a professional fundraiser for a university. © 2010 UC Regents