Michael Gielnik

Professor for HR Development
Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Michael M. Gielnik is currently a Professor for HR Development at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany. He studied psychology at the University of Giessen, Germany, and received his PhD from the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He was a Visiting Senior Fellow at the National University of Singapore Business School. His research interest is entrepreneurship from a psychological perspective. Specifically, his research focuses on entrepreneurial learning and training, the entrepreneurial process, and aging of entrepreneurs. He has taken a special interest in entrepreneurship in the developing context. He has conducted several research and practice projects on entrepreneurship in different countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.