Shalini Gopalkrishnan

Dr. Shalini S Gopalkrishnan is a Visiting  Professor for the Graduate School of International Policy and Management (GSIPM) . Her research interests include Technology and  analytics to build and accelerate social enterprises, public policy in entrepreneurship, women leadership and impact investing.

Dr. Gopalkrishnan has presented at conferences across the globe and has published papers in peer-reviewed journals and book chapters.  She has taught MBA, undergraduate and doctoral programs at universities across the world. In 2016, she won the best prize for teaching at the Experiential classroom XVII in entrepreneurship. In addition,  Dr. Gopalkrishnan was the  winner of the Global Brainstorm Challenge “Global Women’s Leadership Alliance: 5 million women change agents improving our world in 5 years.

Dr. Gopalkrishnan is a judge at UC Berkley LAUNCH and BIG IDEAS competition. She is a member of Data Kind and, Youth Business USA. She has founded startups such as freelancemoms.com, Introspect and Lexion Global and worked as a consultant with A F Ferguson (then part of KPMG) and worked on projects with USAID, Fortune 500 firms and the Government.  She has volunteered with Junior achievement, Big Brother Big Sister, Page 15, World Affairs Council, Girl Scouts, Hands on Atlanta and Orlando.

Dr. Gopalkrishnan earned her Bachelor of Mathematics/statistics degree from Bombay University, Masters in Business(PGDM) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India and her Doctoral credentials from University of Florida.  She has been teaching at MIIS since 2018.