Dafna Kariv is Vice President for Global Initiatives at the College of Management (COLLMAN), Israel; the Chair of Novus Entrepreneurship Center, and Co-Chair of ACTO, Academic Center for Impact Investing and Entrepreneurship. She is also Academic Manager of the MBA/MS collaboration at Baruch College, USA. Kariv is the author of many research publications, focusing on entrepreneurship, education, and gender. She is a recipient of several European Commission prize funds; involved in academic boards; affiliate professor at HEC, Montreal; and the 'German-Israeli Startup-Exchange Program' ambassador.