The Decade of Emerging Markets

Andrew Karolyi is the Charles Field Knight Dean of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. He is a Professor of Finance and International Business as well as holder of the Harold Bierman Jr. Distinguished Professorship in the Johnson Graduate School of Management. Dr. Karolyi is also a Professor of Economics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences.

A scholar in the area of investment management, with a specialization in the study of international financial markets, Dr. Karolyi has published extensively in journals in finance and economics, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. He has also published several books and monographs, and his research is featured in print and electronic media such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, Time, New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, BusinessWeek, and CNBC. Dr. Karolyi recently completed a four-year term as executive editor of the Review of Financial Studies, one of the top-tier journals in finance. He has also served as an associate editor for a variety of journals, including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Review of Finance, and the Pacific Basin Finance Journal.

Dr. Karolyi is a recipient of the Michael Jensen Prize for Corporate Finance and Organizations (2017), the Fama/DFA Prize for Capital Markets and Asset Pricing (2005), the William F. Sharpe Award for Scholarship in Finance (2001), the Journal of Empirical Finance’s Biennial Best Paper Prize (2006), and Johnson School’s Prize for Excellence in Research (2010). Dr. Karolyi leads various executive education programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, and he is actively involved in consulting with corporations, banks, investment firms, stock exchanges, and law firms. He is president-elect/program chair of the Western Finance Association, has served as a director of the American Finance Association, and is past chairperson of the board of trustees and past president of the Financial Management Association International. Dr. Karolyi received his B.A. (Honors) in Economics from McGill University and worked at the Bank of Canada for several years in its research department. He subsequently earned his MBA and Ph.D. degrees in Finance at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago.

Anne Miroux is Faculty Fellow at the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets in the Johnson School of Business at Cornell University. She has over 30 years of experience in international trade and finance.

Dr. Miroux began her career in the United Nations Center on Transnational Corporations in New York, where she was involved in the negotiations on the UN Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations. In the mid 1980s, she joined the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), where she specialized in issues related to debt in developing countries, foreign direct investment and transnational corporations, and technology and innovation policies. For several years, Dr. Miroux led the organization’s work on foreign direct investment (FDI) statistics and directed the World Investment Reports (WIR), the United Nations flagship report on FDI and transnational corporations. She also served as the editor of the UN Transnational Corporations Journal. Dr. Miroux published a number of papers and articles and led research projects and technical assistance activities in developing countries on debt, FDI, and development.

Until late 2015, Dr. Miroux was the Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics in UNCTAD, in charge of the organization’s work on technology and trade logistics. She was also the Head of the Secretariat of the United Nations Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD). Dr. Miroux is a member of the Advisory Board of the Technology and Management Center of the Department of International Development at Oxford University as well as a member of the Board of NetExplo. Dr. Miroux has an MBA from HEC – Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (Jouy-en-Josas, France) and a diploma from IEP (Institut d’Etudes Politiques – Paris). She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University of Paris I – Sorbonne.

Erica Chicola is an operations senior analyst at the IDB’s Office of Outreach and Partnerships (ORP). In this role, Ms. Chicola leads the development of knowledge products and knowledge-based partnerships dedicated to advancing sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). She also leads strategic communications efforts for IDB leadership on the topics of partnerships and development finance and helps to forge partnerships between the IDB and external organizations in areas including climate change, innovation, and sustainable development more broadly. Ms. Chicola has a Master of Global Policy from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where her research focused on strengthening pension systems to prepare for aging populations in the LAC region. She also has a Bachelor’s in International Relations and Communications from Florida State University (FSU), with concentrations in Economics and Political Science.

Gautam Jain has over 20 years of experience covering global emerging fixed-income markets, both as a strategist and a portfolio manager. He has worked in buy-side and sell-side firms, including The Rohatyn Group (TRG Management), Barclays Capital, and Millennium Partners. Mr. Jain has helped manage emerging markets local-currency and hard-currency debt funds. The assets that he covers include currencies, interest rates, sovereign credits, and related derivatives. Mr. Jain specializes in portfolio construction, smart-beta index creation, and asset allocation. He holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from Columbia University and is a CFA charter holder.

James Zhan, Senior Director at UNCTAD, leads the UN World Investment Report, is editor-in-chief of the Transnational Corporations Journal, and chief strategist for the World Association of Investment Promotion Agencies. He has published extensively on trade, investment, and technology-related economic and legal issues. Among other accomplishments, Mr. Zhan led the formulation of global guidelines for a new generation of investment policies and the establishment of the UNCTAD World Investment Forum. He has held academic advisory positions at Cambridge University, Columbia University, Cornell University, Oxford University, and the University of Geneva.

Lorenzo Pavone oversees the Emerging Markets Network (EMnet), a network of multinational companies promoting policy dialogue and analysis on business in emerging markets, hosted by the OECD Development Centre. He has experience in emerging markets, private sector development, competitiveness, investment promotion, and business climate assessment.

Mr. Pavone holds an MBA from HEC in Paris and a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Rome La Sapienza. He is a member of the Faculty Advisory Council of the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

Lourdes Casanova is the Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets and a Senior Lecturer at Cornell University’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. Formerly of the strategy department at INSEAD, Dr. Casanova specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets.

In 2014 and 2015, Dr. Casanova was named one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. She is a member of the board of directors of Boyce Thompson Institute.

Dr. Casanova is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a Ph.D. from Universidad de Barcelona and an M.A. from the University of Southern California.

Momina Aijazuddin is the Regional Financial Sector Director, MCA, at the International Finance Corporation (IFC). She is responsible for IFC’s financial institutions group program for the MCT region, which involves supervising a team of 50 covering investment, upstream, and advisory engagements with a portfolio of US$3.3 billion and annual commitments of over US$1 billion. Ms. Aijazuddin was previously responsible as the global lead for IFC’s MSME investment and advisory activities, which exceeds cumulative investments of US$6 billion worldwide with over 300 MSME-related players, in addition to advisory services worth US$63.7 million in 68 projects across 30 countries.

Ms. Aijazuddin brings over two decades of investment transaction experience in financial services, microfinance, and manufacturing sectors in over 70 countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, MENA, and LAC regions. Her technical expertise includes setting up greenfield MFIs in MENA and Asia, transforming institutions to become regulated banks, and engaging with policymakers and industry players. Ms. Aijazuddin has spent the last few years heavily engaged in IFC’s financial inclusion efforts in China with leading banks and fintech players and handled key relationships with Mastercard and Ant Financial as well as leading MSME banks around the world. Her experience prior to joining IFC includes work in the banking sector. Ms. Aijazuddin holds a Master’s degree in Economics with Distinction from the London School of Economics.

Veneta Andonova is Associate Professor and former Dean of the School of Management at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. She received her Ph.D. degree in Management from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. Dr. Andonova had been full-time faculty at top business schools in Latin America and at the American University in Bulgaria. Her interests lie at the intersection of business strategy and institutional analysis, with a focus on Latin American multinationals, non-market resources, and entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging markets.

Dr. Andonova’s research has been published in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Socio-economics, Telecommunications Policy, Review of Law, and Economics, among others. A regular presenter at international conferences, Dr. Andonova’s most recent book, “Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Unexpected Places,” was published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Xuelin Bu is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University. She received her Master’s degree from the University of Sussex in the U.K. Ms. Bu is a member of the Centre for Global Strategy Research at Wuhan University. Her research interests are global strategy and corporate social responsibility, especially for Chinese multinationals.