Fred Kiesner, Ph.D.

Conrad N. Hilton Chair of Entrepreneurship

Office: Hilton 371
Phone: 310.338.4569
Email: fkiesner@lmu.edu

Areas of Expertise

• Entrepreneurship

Biography

Fred Kiesner is the Conrad N. Hilton Chair of Entrepreneurship and has been affiliated with the College of Business Administration since 1974. He has also taught at the University of Michigan and UCLA. Kiesner is the Past National President for Association of Private Enterprise Education, is a member and the former national president of the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the Regional President of the Small Business Institute Directors Association. He has over 175 placements of articles in various academic journals, books, magazines, newspapers, television and other publications in the business, educational and entrepreneurial field throughout the world and has appeared on a number of local, regional and national radio and TV show programs in the U.S., Ireland, England, France, Russia (the Soviet Union), Canada, Yugoslavia, and Singapore, speaking on entrepreneurship and other business subjects.

Education

• PhD:	Claremont Graduate School (1984)
• MBA:	Northwestern University (1962)
• BSB:	University of Minnesota (1960)