Dr. Robert Mittelman is the inaugural Dean of the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies. Before this, he served as interim Dean of the Faculty of Management from 2020 to 2025.
He began with the Royal Roads School of Business as an assistant professor in 2014, and over time stepped into numerous leadership roles, including Director of the School of Business and Program Head for the Master of Business Administration in Executive Management as well as for the Bachelor of Business Administration in Innovation & Sustainability.
Mittelman co-led Royal Roads’ application to become a designated Ashoka U Changemaker Campus and now serves as an Ashoka U change champion. He also makes significant contributions to RRU’s research and innovation efforts, with studies relating to social entrepreneurship, corporate social innovation and non-profit marketing. He is currently leading Royal Road’s efforts in the creation of the Westshore Innovation & Start-Up Hub at the new Royal Roads campus in Langford and sits on the Board of the South Island Prosperity Partnership.
Experience
Prior to Royal Roads, Mittelman worked as an entrepreneur, starting and running a number of small businesses and social enterprises in Canada and abroad. He has worked with micro-entrepreneurs in Peru with Kiva.org, served as a consultant with MBAs Without Borders in Guatemala, and started his own business in Nicaragua. He has taught a variety of course in entrepreneurship, international business, and marketing at the undergraduate, graduate and executive education levels with students from Canada, Colombia and Iran.
Education
2015
PhD in Management
Sprott School of Business, Carleton University
2006
Master of Business Administration
Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
2000
Bachelor of International Business
Carleton University
1997
Bachelor of Arts in Economics
Western University
