Women's Entrepreneurship and the Sustainable Development Goals

Léo-Paul Dana is Professor at ICD Business School, Groupe IGS, Paris, France, and at Dalhousie University. He is also Visiting Professor at Lappeenranta University of Technology and affiliated with Sorbonne Business School. A graduate of McGill University and HEC-Montreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at INSEAD. He has published extensively in a variety of journals, including Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice; International Business Review; International Small Business Journal; Journal of Business Research; Journal of Small Business Management; Journal of World Business; Small Business Economics; and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.Dr. Meghna Chhabra is an academician with more than 15 years of teaching and corporate experience across institutions in India. She was educated in “Design Thinking” from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Her research interests include Women’s Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education. Her other areas of interest include Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ventures and Sustainable Business Models. She is an Associate Editor at Journal of Enterprising Communities: People & Places and an editorial board member of the journal International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation and on the review board of many top-tier management journals. She is also on the editorial board of two books published by World Scientific. Dr. Meghna has more than forty publications in international journals, including the Journal of Cleaner Production, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Education and Training, Journal of Enterprising Communities, Business and Society Review, and Journal of Tourism Cities.

• 1. Role of entrepreneurship in achieving SDGs2. Entrepreneurship through the lens of SDGs3. Women's entrepreneurship and sustainable development4. The gender differences and how women become entrepreneurs while considering the green economy, compared to men5. The impact of the female workforce participating in entrepreneurial activities and its relevance regarding sustainability6. The importance of female entrepreneurship and its link with sustainable tourism development7. Gender differences when developing entrepreneurial activities and their relationship with sustainability8. Intrapreneurial female leaders and corporate sustainability orientation9. Women entrepreneurship and eco-tourism10. Gender equality and women empowerment through fair trade social enterprises11. Women entrepreneurship and international organizations12. Programs and policies to encourage women to be sustainable entrepreneurs13. Stories of women advancing the sustainable development goals