Kiran Trehan

Kiran Trehan is Pro- Vice Chancellor for Partnerships and Engagement at The University of York and Director of the Centre for Womens Enterprise, Leadership & Diversity ( WELEAD). Professor Trehan is a key contributor to debates on leadership, enterprise development and family business. She has led a number of leaderships, enterprise and business support initiatives and has extensively published a number of journal articles, policy reports, books and book chapters in the field. Her work has been supported by grants from a full range of research funding bodies, including the Economic and Social Research Councils and Arts Humanities Research councils, government departments, regional and local agencies including Local Enterprise Partnerships and Chambers of Commerce and the private sector.

Professor Trehan has a national and international reputation in a senior research, impact capacity: publishing in peer reviewed journals of a high quality; being an invited professor/scholar in Europe and internationally, presenting at a range of policy and research events, conferences and symposia with policymakers, public services and community networks to pioneer and promote Entrepreneurship Enterprise and family business. The research embeds the complementary concerns of SME’s practitioners, policymakers and academics by converting academic insights into effective action, policy learning. In 2019 Professor Trehan was elected to be the President of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE). ISBE is the leading national body for SME research and policy learning.