Pegram Harrison

Pegram Harrison is a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is a member of the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and of Exeter College, Oxford.

Pegram's research and teaching concern entrepreneurship and leadership in an entrepreneurial context. He teaches entrepreneurship (pre-start-up, opportunity recognition and business planning) and leadership (especially in entrepreneurial contexts) to executives and Diploma students, as well as on the MBA and undergraduate programmes.

He also conducts research at the intersection of business and social issues, and on projects relating to business education, particularly for women entrepreneurs in Muslim communities.

Pegram received a BA in Literature from Yale University, a PhD in English Literature and Indian History from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the London Business School. Before joining Saїd Business School in 2008 he taught entrepreneurship and strategy at the European Business School, London, and was Director of the Emerging Leaders Programme at the London Business School. He has also taught literature and history at New York University and Birkbeck College at the University of London.

Pegram has worked as a strategy consultant around the world for both public and private sector organisations, as well as for governments in both developed and developing countries.

He is a founder member of the Pan European Entrepreneurship Research group, an association of researchers based at Paris-Dauphine University working on European entrepreneurship and higher education.

Areas of expertise include:

• Entrepreneurial leadership
• Entrepreneurship and Islam
• Entrepreneurship education