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Dr. Nastaran Simarasl is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship at Cal Poly ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½. She was a Visiting Scholar at WHU, Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany in 2023. Her research on entrepreneurship in understudied contexts has been accepted and published in Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, Family Business Review, and Business Horizons, to name a few. She is the primary Faculty Advisor of the on campus. She is passionate about promoting entrepreneurship in ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½. She has offered consulting services to the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Chamber of Commerce and other local non-profits with her students and through her business consulting classes. She is also the Cal Poly ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Co-Chair of the Community Network that promotes open inquiry and viewpoint diversity on campuses. 

Before becoming a professor, she worked as a Project Manager in an organizational alliance between two universities. She also worked as a Senior Researcher, leading, designing, and implementing research projects to enhance Iran’s entrepreneurship ecosystem at Iran’s Ministry of Commerce. In addition, she previously owned and managed her insurance agency office.

In her spare time, she enjoys reading, working out, volunteering, traveling, and conversing about history and politics with her husband.