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Professor profile
Dina Sherif
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
· Business
Entrepreneurship
Senior Lecturer Executive Director
The MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity
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Dina Sherif is a Senior Lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, affiliated with the MIT Sloan School of Management. She serves as the Executive Director of The MIT Kuo Sharper Center for Prosperity and Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on innovation-driven entrepreneurship and financial market vulnerabilities. Sherif has contributed to academic publications, including a working paper titled "On the Back of the Gray Rhino: Financial Market Vulnerabilities and Innovation-driven Entrepreneurship." She has also engaged with global initiatives, such as the Foundry Fellowship program in Nigeria, to support entrepreneurship across Africa.