Professor Dafna Kariv is full-time faculty member at the Adelson School of Entrepreneurship, Reichman University (former IDC), Herzliya, the Head of the dual degree of Entrepreneurship-Business Administration, and the Chair of the School’s research Commission. Professor Kariv is also Affiliate Professor at HEC, Montreal, Canada. Prof. Kariv is the author of seven academic books, published by Routledge UK, Routledge, NY and Edward Elgar, UK, on female entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, educating entrepreneurship, and startups navigating crises. She has published numerous papers in entrepreneurship in academic journals, with research teams from Canada, Europe and US. She is a member of the editorial boards of two prestigious journals in entrepreneurship, and the Israeli Council of Higher Education’s evaluator of entrepreneurial programs in academic institutions in Israel. Kariv’s research focuses on entrepreneurial performance, entrepreneurial psychological capital, ecosystems, entrepreneurial education and gender. She is a recipient of several prized funds including the European Commission funds; she is involved in academic boards, and she is an Ambassador at GINSUM (German Israeli Network of Startups & Mittelstand). During the COVID-19 pandemic she has developed a model aimed at supporting entrepreneurs, that she has presented in webinars around the word, voluntarily, to support the entrepreneurial ecosystem. She is the former Vice President for global initiatives and development, and the Chair of the department of entrepreneurship and innovation at the College of Management, Rishon Lezion. She has founded and managed an incubator and a virtual incubator, a remoted program engaging academic institutions around the world.