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Richard Ivey Building 3112D
Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship
Associate Dean, Faculty Development
Darren Meister is the Associate Dean, Faculty Development at the Ivey Business School and the former Faculty Director of the HBA and MSc Programs. He was also the founding Director of the Thompson Centre for Engineering Leadership and Innovation in Western Engineering. His interests focus on design thinking, technology-based entrepreneurship and the role of technology in enhancing organizational effectiveness, specifically as it concerns innovation processes. His research work is conducted within companies in close cooperation with practitioners.
Through research and consulting opportunities, Darren has worked with many entrepreneurial ventures and leading global firms such as Accenture, Industry Canada, Intel, Royal Bank, and Siemens. His work has appeared in Management Science, MIS Quarterly and other leading journals and conferences. He was also on the Executive Board of CEMS, the Global Alliance of Management Education.
Before joining Ivey, Darren taught at Queen's University and Carleton University, where he was one of the architects of an Information Systems concentration in the Bachelor of Commerce program. He has taught in all of Ivey's programs. He was a Rotary International Foundation scholar, attending the University of Cambridge. Subsequently, he earned his PhD at the University of Waterloo, Canada.