Beauty Akter is a PhD fellow at the University of Sussex, UK. She is passionate about accelerating innovation and new business creation. Prior to becoming a PhD fellow, she worked as a faculty at the largest private university of Bangladesh where she taught entrepreneurship.

Beauty has worked with Bangladesh’ leading entrepreneurial ecosystem since 2016. She has deep insights into corporate entrepreneurship, startups, business development, and venture capital.

Beauty has organized many programs and events on entrepreneurship, startups and women entrepreneurship. In recent years, she has been involved with many global entrepreneurship organizations, including Global Entrepreneurship Research Network (GERN), GEN; Startup Grind (a Silicon Valley-based Entrepreneurship Community), World Business Angels Investment Forum, HULT Prize at DIU, and others.