Amanda Elam, PhD serves as a Research Fellow at the award-winning Diana International Research Institute at Babson College where she conducts research on gender and entrepreneurship around the globe. She has published highly cited research in top business journals, technical reports, and edited volumes, including the globally-recognized GEM Women’s Entrepreneurship Report, and serves on the editorial board of Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice.

Amanda Elam, PhD is also Cofounder of Galaxy Diagnostics, an early-stage medical diagnostics company in North Carolina (USA) advancing diagnostics and clinical discovery for emerging infectious diseases linked to chronic illness, like Lyme disease (Borrelia) and cat scratch disease (Bartonella). In addition to her academic research and business leadership, Amanda Elam, PhD serves as a business advisor to a number of innovative life sciences startups, INGOs supporting women entrepreneurs, and appears regularly on panels and podiums at industry and global research conferences. She holds a doctorate in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill.