Shirley-Ann Behravesh
Assistant Professor
Arizona State University
Shirley-Ann Behravesh is an assistant professor in Global Sustainable Enterprise with the Thunderbird School of Global Management.Behravesh is also a senior sustainability scientist with the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation. Behravesh holds degrees in management, finance, manufacturing engineering and sustainability. Her research focuses on strategies to encourage adoption of sustainability and innovation practices within organizations and communities. Having grown up on a small island in the Caribbean, she is particularly interested in building resiliant communities through grassroots innovations in small-island states and the developing world. She teaches courses in innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainability. Behravesh works with and advises organizations in the field of sustainability and sits on the Climate Action Advisory Council for the City of Tucson.