Dinah Bennett

Dinah Bennett is the founder/director of International Consultants for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise and Global Lead for Entrepreneurship at Weiforward.org. Outcomes from her 20 years at Durham University on successful SME development hav been disseminated via books, BBC Television Series and training programmes internationally. Over the past 18 years, Dinah has worked extensively with the banking community in the UK and overseas developing and delivering capacity building programmes to bank managers and decision makers to ensure a better enabling environment for SMEs. In 2005 she was awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise Promotion and in 2011 an OBE in recognition of her support for women’s entrepreneurship. She has been an Adviser to the UK All Party Parliamentary Group for Entrepreneurship and the European Commission Economic and Social Committee. In Dec 2016 Dinah was Awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the UK Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs (IOEE).