Simon Down is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Organization at the Kristianstad University/Högskolan Kristianstad (HKR) in South Sweden, and Honorary Professor at Birmingham Business School, UK. Implausible as it sounds he is also an Adjunct Professor at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (appointed May 2016).

He has previously worked in the UK at Birmingham University, Anglia Ruskin University as Deputy Dean for Research, Newcastle University, Plymouth University, and in Australia at Wollongong University. He has published books, articles, policy reports and book chapters on social enterprise in Haiti, social enterprise incubation, small firm policy and regulation, self-identity, indigenous entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship education in North Korea, management history and ethnographic methodology in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Environment and Planning A, Human Relations, Annals of Tourism Research, Entrepreneurship and Regional Development, Organization and the International Small Business Journal.