Biography

Professor Sophie Manigart holds the Gimv Private Equity Chair at the Vlerick Business School at Ghent University, Belgium. She has extensively researched entrepreneurial finance questions, from both the supplier perspective (including venture capital, business angel and bootstrap financing) and the demand perspective. She was visiting professor at London Business School and IE Business School (Madrid). She acts as a board member of Gimv, a quoted private equity investor, and of BAN Vlaanderen, a business angel network, amongst others.