James Koch

Dodson Distinguished Service Professor of Management and former Dean of the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University where he also served as Acting Dean of the School of Engineering. He is Founder of the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship (previously the Center for Science, Technology, and Society), a co-founder of the Tech Awards—Technology Benefiting Humanity, and co-founder of the Global Social Benefit Incubator. In addition to entrepreneurship and social innovation, his research and consulting have focused on organizational change and the design of high performance work systems. Jim has served as on a number of for-profit and non-profit boards, including Commonwealth Club of California and the Board of Trustees of Bay Area Council Economic Institute, and Spring Impact. Jim received his MBA and Ph.D. from UCLA. He and his wife, Anne, were married in 1969. They have two children and five grandchildren.