Dr. Siri A.

Terjesen

Dr. Siri Terjesen is an Assistant Professor in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana
University. Siri’s research on entrepreneurship, strategy and international management
has been published in leading international journals such as Strategic Management
Journal, Journal of Operations Management, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Small
Business Economics, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, and Venture Capital. Siri is
co-author (with Anne Huff, Steve Floyd and Hugh Sherman) of the textbook, Strategic
Management: Thought and Action and co-author (with Howard Frederick) of the book
Sources of Funding for Australia’s Entrepreneurs. Her research has been profiled in U.S.
News & World Report, Christian Science Monitor, Voice of America, Entrepreneur.com,
Management Issues, Times, CNBC Europe and other outlets. Siri was a finalist for the
Aspen Institute’s Business School Faculty Pioneer Rising Star in 2008 and was named
the Top Early Career Researcher at QUT in 2007. She won the Kelley School’s Promisng
Life Sciences Working Paper award in 2010.

Siri undertook a Bachelors in Business Administration at the University of Richmond,

Masters at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (as a U.S.
Fulbright Scholar) in Bergen, Norway, and PhD at Cranfield University in the UK. She
was a post-doctoral fellow at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane,
Australia. She has also taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science
(UK), Peking University (China), Jönköping International Business School (Sweden) and
Texas Christian University (US). Prior to starting her academic career, Siri was a
consultant with Accenture in Washington, D.C. and Berlin, Germany. She is a member of
the board of directors of Beal Budgeting and Run for Tomorrow.

Siri is also an athlete. Siri has completed over 100 marathons or ultramarathons (running
races over the marathon distance of 26.2 miles), including 40 victories around the world,
in the US, UK, Australia, Belgium, Korea, Norway and Spain. She won national
championships at the 100 km (UK), 50 km (Australia, England) and 40 mile (Wales)
distances. Siri was a member of the United States team to the World 100K
Championships in 2004 and was the bronze medalist at the IAU 50K World Trophy in
2006.

Siri lives in Bloomington with her husband Per, a Radiologist, and her newborn son Tor.