Charles (Chuck) Eesley

Chuck Eesley is an Associate Professor and W.M. Keck Foundation Faculty Scholar in the Department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. As a Faculty Director of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, his research focuses on the role of the institutional and university environment in high-growth, engineering-driven entrepreneurship. His research centers on rethinking how educational and policy environments shape the economic and entrepreneurial impact of university engineering students and alumni. His field research spans China, Japan, South Korea, Chile, Bangladesh, Uganda, Ethiopia, Thailand, and Silicon Valley and has received awards from the Schulze Foundation, the Technical University of Munich, and the Kauffman Foundation. He serves on the Steering Committee for the Stanford King Center for Global Development and the Advisory Committee for the Stanford Center at Peking University. Prof. Eesley is a faculty affiliate at the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, and the Woods Institute for the Environment. He is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Strategic Management Journal. His work has been published in Nature, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Biological Psychiatry, among other places. He has been an advocate and mentor for immigrants and historically underrepresented groups in STEM, academia, and the tech sector through programs such as Diversifying Academia, Recognizing Excellence (DARE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Global Innovation through Science and Technology (GIST). Before coming to Stanford, Prof. Eesley completed his Ph.D. at the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management. He earned a B.S. in neuroscience at Duke University.