Gerry George is Dean and Lee Kong Chian Chair Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Lee Kong Chian School of Business at Singapore Management University. He is a visiting professor at Imperial College London and Erasmus University.

Prior to SMU, George was Deputy Dean of the Imperial College Business School, Director of the Gandhi Centre, and Academic Director of the Elite Programme, which collaborated with the London Stock Exchange to grow ambitious private companies.

An award-winning researcher and teacher, George has published over 100 articles in leading journals, served as Editor of the Academy Management Journal and co-authored three books on entrepreneurship. He was awarded a prestigious Professorial Fellowship from the UK's Economic and Social Research Council to work on socially-inclusive innovation and is also a Fellow of the City & Guilds of London Institute and the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He serves on the Board of AACSB International and BML Munjal University. Council of the Monetary Authority of Singapore tasked to redraft the Corporate Governance Code of Singapore in 2017.