Dana L. Brown, PhD, MPhil, ICD.D. is Dean of Global and Corporate Engagement at Grenoble École de Management, where she leads global partnerships, corporate engagement, and executive education growth within regional and international ecosystems. She is an experienced academic leader with more than 25 years in senior roles across leading business schools in Europe, Canada, and the United States, with a career focused on building durable connections between academia, government, and the private sector.
Dr. Brown has served as Dean of the Sprott School of Business at Carleton University, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Dean of Business and Law at De Montfort University in the UK, and Director of the MBA at Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. Across these roles, she has led major institutional transformations, launched innovation hubs and entrepreneurship centres, and worked closely with policymakers, industry leaders, and regional development agencies to strengthen innovation-driven growth.
Her work on innovation ecosystems spans Oxford, Leicester, Boston, and Ottawa, combining academic leadership with deep engagement in regional economic