Professor Leo Dana has been researching for and with Indigenous peoples – those whose ancestors were living in an area prior to colonisation or within a nation-state prior to the formation of that nation-state. He defined Indigenous entrepreneurship as self-employment based on Indigenous knowledge and with a team developed a relevant model. A graduate of McGill University, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and Visiting Professor at INSEAD and at Kingston University.  He has published extensively in a variety of journals including: Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice,International Business Review, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management,Journal of World Business,Small Business Economics, and Technological Forecasting & Social Change.