Shabir Saaed has been a research associate at the professorship in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Cologne since October 2022. He obtained a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degree in Economics at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf. During his studies, Shabir Saaed gained practical experience as a student and research assistant at the Chair in Entrepreneurship and Finance and the Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE). After his studies, he worked as a referent for the federal cartel office (Bundeskartellamt) and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Düsseldorf, as a project staff at the German Sport University Cologne, in his own family business in the Food Wholesale sector and in a Spin-Off project at the Faculty of Medicine at the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, as well as as a journalistic employee for the business newspaper Handelsblatt.

Research focus

• Psychology of Entrepreneurship
• Entrepreneurial Teams and Behavior