Sean D Carr

Sean D. Carr (bornJanuary 21, 1969) is the Executive Director of Batten Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation at the University of Virginia. He is also co-author, along with Robert F. Bruner, of the book The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market's Perfect Storm. The book focuses on the early 20th Century financial disaster known as the Panic of 1907.

Carr holds an MBA and PhD from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He also has an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, and an undergraduate degree in Classics from Northwestern University. Previously he was a producer at CNN in Washington, D.C. He was also a producer at ABC News' Good Morning America, and World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Carr is married and resides in Charlottesville, Va.