Banu Özkazanç-Pan (she/her)
Associate Professor and Director of Venture Capital Inclusion Lab @ Brown University
Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D. is the Director of the Brown University VC Inclusion Lab and an Associate Professor of Management and member of the Organizations and Social Change faculty at the College of Management, University of Massachusetts, Boston. Prof. Ozkazanc-Pan is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology and Faculty at The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, Brown University.She is also a visiting scholar at The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Writing on Women at Brown University during 2018-2019. She is the current co-PDW chair and incoming co-chair for the Academy of Management Diversity and Inclusion Theme committee and past co-chair of the Critical Studies Management Division.
Her research interests include leading for diversity and inclusion in organizations and entrepreneurial ecosystems, examining the Future of Work and its impact on different people, organizations and societies and studying the intersections of culture, postcoloniality and transnationalism as they relate to changing nature of work and societies.