David Murphy

Assistant Provost, Office of Innovation/IDEA Center, Executive Director for Student Entrepreneurship and the ESTEEM Graduate Program

David Murphy is Assistant Provost, Office of Innovation/IDEA Center, faculty member, and Executive Director of Student Entrepreneurship and the ESTEEM Graduate Program, having arrived at Notre Dame in November of 2011.

Prior to Notre Dame, David helped launch and then lead Better World Books (as President and CEO from inception to July, 2011), a global bookstore that harnesses the power of capitalism to bring literacy and opportunity to people around the world. An award-winning social entrepreneurship venture, Better World Books benefits thousands of charities and libraries here in the United States and around the world.