Dmitry Khanin’s Bio

Since December of 2018, Dr. Dmitry Khanin serves as an Associate Professor of Strategy in the Management Department of Alfaisal University, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Dmitry Khanin completed his B.A. and Ph.D. in philosophy at the Moscow State University. Subsequently, he worked as a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Russia). During this time, Dr. Khanin published a book, a textbook and twenty papers in Russian.

In 1990, Dr. Dmitry Khanin went to work in the U.S., first at Cornell University (teaching Russian philosophy) and later at Colgate University (teaching Russian language and literature). In 1999, Dr. Dmitry Khanin received his MBA in international business and finance from the University of Miami. After that, Dr. Dmitry Khanin worked as a financial advisor with American Express in South Miami, FL and worked as an investment advisor with Morgan Stanley, in North Miami Beach, FL.

In 2006, Dr. Dmitry Khanin received his Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Maryland (College Park). Subsequently, Dr. Dmitry Khanin taught strategic management, international business, organizational behavior and business ethics at Cal State, Fullerton, Cal State, LA, Cal State, Long Beach, University of La Verne and Texas Tech. For many years, Dr. Khanin served as the Principal Investigator for the Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Cal State, Fullerton and served as Director of Research for the Center of Entrepreneurship at Cal State, Fullerton.

In 2014, Dr. Dmitry Khanin moved to Astana, Kazakhstan to teach entrepreneurship at the College of Business of Nazarbayev University, the top research university in the country guided by Duke University (USA). During almost 5 years in Kazakhstan, Dr. Dmitry Khanin provided consulting to Kazakhstan firms and the Ministry of Economics. He also created and hosted his own show on the Kazakhstan TV dedicated to entrepreneurship. In addition, Dr. Dmitry Khanin wrote the first chapter for the first textbook for entrepreneurship in the country, for high school students. Currently, Dr. Khanin is working on launching a new project on family businesses in Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Khanin has over 30 publications in such top management journals as Organization Science, The Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Management Education, The Journal of Small Business Management, Business Horizons, Family Business Review, Journal of Entrepreneurship, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of Private Equity, and Venture Capital as well as many others. In 2015, Dr. Khanin was honored as the Excellent Reviewer by the Family Business Review (FBR). In 2017, his paper won the first prize at the Family Business Research Conference. Dr. Khanin has presented three new papers at the Academy of Management (AOM) annual conference meeting in Boston, MS (USA), in August of 2019.