Petru Sandu is the founding director of the Family Business and Entrepreneurship Program and the academic liaison for the High Center for Family Business at Elizabethtown College, USA. As a tenured professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at the School of Business, he has been developing curricula and teaching classes of corporate strategy, family business, and entrepreneurship, both at undergraduate and graduate level. He has been a visiting professor in several countries. Dr. Sandu main research interests are family business professionalization, governance, succession, and intergenerational entrepreneurship that were presented at conferences in more than ten countries and published in peer reviewed journals. His teaching and research were rewarded with several awards.
He received his Ph.D. from Al. I. Cuza University, Romania, his MBA from The Ohio State University, USA, and the undergraduate degree from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, Romania. Before moving to the U.S., he founded a family business that is still active. In the Spring semester of 2023, Petru was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Murcia, Spain, where he was teaching and conducting a research project in Spanish.