Daniel Armanios 

Daniel Armanios is the BT Professor and Chair of Major Programme Management at Saïd Business School and a Professorial Fellow of St Anne’s College. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of Leadership at Tsinghua University in Schwarzman College and a LabGov.city Distinguished Professor at LUISS (Italy). He was previously an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering & Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Daniel holds Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Pittsburgh in Mechanical Engineering (B.S.) and Political Science (B.A). He holds a Master’s degree from the University of Oxford in Management Research and in Water Science, Policy and Management (MSc). He holds a PhD from Stanford University in Management Science & Engineering.

Daniel’s current research lies at the intersection of institutions, engineering systems, and public policy & entrepreneurship. More specifically, he focuses on the social processes that influence how physical and scientific infrastructure is built and subsequently used to achieve entrepreneurship, innovation, and sustainable development. His research is conducted in a variety of contexts such as the United States, China, Egypt, and Tunisia. To those ends, he uses a mixed methods approach that integrates qualitative and quantitative data to overcome constraints that have historically hindered empirical analyses in these settings. Salient projects include understanding how conflicts between national and local governments affect high-tech innovation and infrastructure maintenance in China and in the United States, as well as how the Arab Spring has affected how state banking infrastructure funds entrepreneurship in Egypt and Tunisia.