Keren Naa Abeka Arthur (PhD)
Adjunct Faculty, Economics & Business Administration
Keren holds a Ph.D. in Governance of Financial Innovation and an MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from the University of Exeter Business School, UK. She is an Alumnus of Ashesi University where she studied Business Administration and graduated first class with Magna Cum Laude Honors. Keren has ten (10) years’ experience as an educator, researcher and consultant in several consultancy projects.
Her research interests are in experiential learning pedagogies for entrepreneurial mindset development, embedding responsible innovation in design thinking projects and in sustainability mindset development. Keren is a member of the Academy of Management and the PRME Working Group on Sustainability Mindset.
Her current projects include developing an easy to use strategic planning toolkit for Small Enterprises, writing local cases for entrepreneurship education and exploring the sustainability mindset of student entrepreneurs. Keren has served as a resource person, coach, and panel member for capacity-building workshops and business plan competitions nationally.
- Foundations of Design and Entrepreneurship I
- Foundations of Design and Entrepreneurship II
- Entrepreneurship Capstone
- Experiential learning pedagogies for education and training
- Sustainability mindset development
- Responsible innovation and design thinking projects
- Arthur, K.N.A., Amanatidou, E., de Saille, S., Birabi, T. & Pandey, P. (2023). Where will an emerging post-Covid Future position the Human? In P. Martin, S. de Saille, K. Liddiard & W. Pierce (Eds.), Being Human During Covid-19, Bristol University Press.
- Arthur, K.N.A. & Arthur, A.K. (2020). The student entrepreneurial journey: Motivations, entrepreneurial engagements and challenges among recent tertiary education graduates of visual arts academic programs in Ghana. Artivate: A Journal of Entrepreneurship in the Arts, 9(1), 84-98.
- Arthur, K.N.A. (2019). Case study: Gender and enterprise development in Africa. In G. Maas & P. Jones (Eds.), Transformational Entrepreneurship Practices (pp. 55-68). Palgrave Macmillan
- Doctor of Philosophy, Governance of Financial Innovation, University of Exeter
- Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Exeter
- BSc. Business Administration, Ashesi University
