Christoph Winkler is the endowed professor and founding program director of the Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at Iona University, where he leads an interdisciplinary entrepreneurship programme built around experiential learning and entrepreneurial thinking across disciplines.
Over the course of his career, Christoph has become a leading voice in entrepreneurship education, both through his own teaching and research and through his work advancing the field more broadly. He is Executive Editor of Entrepreneurship Education and Pedagogy and was named USASBE’s 2026 Entrepreneurship Educator of the Year in recognition of his educational leadership and contributions to entrepreneurship teaching and learning. In 2025, he was also named a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow, USASBE’s highest honour.
Christoph holds a PhD in educational psychology from the City University of New York, where his work focused on self-regulated learning. His research and teaching bring together educational psychology and entrepreneurship education, with a particular interest in how learning environments can help students develop the confidence and agency to act.