I’d love to learn how disadvantaged entrepreneurs with cognitive & physical impairments create successful ventures.When non-disabled entrepreneurs normally fail.Present:Full-time professor of entrepreneurship & Director of the chair in disability & entrepreneurship at IDRAC Business School, Lyon, France.Adjunct professor of corporate finance at Emlyon Business School, Lyon, France.Adjunct professor of entrepreneurship & family business at Regent's University, London.Non-executive director, trustee, and/or board advisor, of ventures & charitable organisations in London, Singapore, and Malaysia that are engaged in:- Higher education in management & cultural studies, &- Crowdfunding services, crypto-currency exchange, & risk capital management for technology startups.Non-executive director & Trustee of Ming-Ai Association & Ming-Ai Institute, UK (HE charity for the preservation of Chinese heritage).Strategic advisor & shareholder of Crowd for Angels Limited (London City-based crowdfunder).Strategic advisor & shareholder of Perceptual Robotics Limited (artificial intelligence design & implementation of inspection solutions).Research Website: Past: - Full-time personal chair in entrepreneurship & innovation studies at Roehampton University London (2012-2019).- Visiting chair in entrepreneurship & family business at Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy.- Reader in Business Strategy, Westminster University London (2010-2012).Research Councils UK Fellow in Corporate Governance, Leeds University (2005-2010).Corporate finance advisory career at Rothschild & Co., London & Singapore.Founded & managed entrepreneurial start-up manufacturing & wholesale selling of pre-fabricated construction materials in Singapore & Malaysia.Finance & treasury director of publicly quoted Singapore & Hong Kong PLCs offering M&E engineering & specialist engineering services, hotels & service apartment ownership & management, & IT project management services, principally in East Asia.Non-executive Director & Board Advisor of publicly quoted & private firms in UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, & Malaysia engaged in specialist engineering services, IT & telephony software development & management, hospitality & leisure services, property holding, & service apartment ownership & management.Strategy advisor on East Asia investments to the Board of Directors of an Euronext-quoted risk capital provider, Gimv, n.v., & Non-executive director of Gimv (Asia) Limited (1994-2012).