Ajay Agrawal

Academic Director

Ajay Agrawal is the Peter Munk Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, where he teaches courses on strategy, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation. On Friday, April 13 the Graduate Business Council of the Rotman School of Management announced that the MBA Graduating Class of 2012 had voted Professor Ajay Agrawal 'Professor of the Year'. This is the sixth year Professor Agrawal received this honour; he also received the 2009 Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching and Research. Professor Agrawal is a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, MA and a leader of the Innovation and Creative Industries group at the Martin Prosperity Institute. He has presented his research on the economics of innovation at a variety of institutions including Harvard University, MIT, Stanford University and the Federal Reserve Bank. Professor Agrawal has testified as an expert witness before the Canadian Copyright Board, authored policy papers for provincial and federal level government agencies and advised organizations in fields including robotics, digital media, software development, wireless, biotherapeutics and pharmaceuticals. He was an invited Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and MIT.