James Barlow
Director, Entrepreneurial Leadership Program
Senior Lecturer, ELS 101 – Entrepreneurship & Business Planning

As Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Tufts Gordon Institute, James Barlow is responsible for providing academic oversight for the Entrepreneurial Leadership minor, and overseeing the various co-curricular activities that serve the entrepreneurship community at Tufts University – including the annual $100K business plan competition, lecture series and internships.

Prior to Tufts, Barlow was the head of outreach for the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) where he designed and delivered various innovation and accelerator programs to universities including MIT, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Penn State and Northwestern. He additionally managed faculty development and online mentoring programs as well as fostered relationships with institutions and potential funders. Previously, Barlow was the chief executive of the Scottish Institute for Enterprise, the national organization for supporting entrepreneurship in Scotland's universities.

Barlow has more than ten years of experience teaching internationally at various universities around the world including Memorial University of Newfoundland in Canada, Thammasat University in Thailand and Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship in Sweden. He additionally has acted as a commercial advisor to 16 startups in a variety of industries. Barlow earned a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Kent.