Ravi Ramamurti

Ravi Ramamurti is the University Distinguished Professor of International Business and Strategy and founding Director of the Center for Emerging Markets at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business. He studies strategy and innovation in emerging markets. Dr. Ramamurti earned his MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad and his DBA from Harvard University. He has been a visiting professor at HBS, The Wharton School, MIT-Sloan, Fletcher School, CEIBS-Shanghai, and IMD-Switzerland, and in 2008 he was elected an AIB Fellow. Dr. Ramamurti’s eight books include three published by Cambridge University Press on the internationalization of emerging market firms. His most recent book, “Reverse Innovation in Health Care,” was published by HBR Press in 2018. In 2017, Dr. Ramamurti’s article “Reverse innovation, emerging markets, and global strategy,” co-authored with Vijay Govindarajan and originally published in 2011, won the inaugural Best Paper Award from Global Strategy Journal. He has published in the top academic journals as well as in practice-oriented journals such as Harvard Business Review. Dr. Ramamurti has worked in more than 20 emerging economies and served as a consultant to many global organizations.