Heading The Fuqua School of Business professor, a long-time specialist in the field of science and technology policy and innovation studies, recently returned to Durham following a five-year term as executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University. Professor Denis Simon Denis Simon, a professor of the practice at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business and former executive vice chancellor of Duke Kunshan University, has been named executive director of the Center for Innovation Policy at Duke Law. “We are delighted to welcome Denis Simon to the Law School to lead the Center for Innovation Policy,” said Kerry Abrams, James B. Duke and Benjamin N. Duke Dean of the School of Law. “His expertise and experience in the field, coupled with his impressive leadership at Duke Kunshan, make him an ideal choice to drive its important research and programming and further enhance Duke’s visibility as a center of excellence in the field of innovation policy.”