Emerging Markets and Emerging Market Multinationals

Anabella Dávila is Professor of Management and Strategy and the Research Chair of the Strategy and Management in Emerging Economies Group at EGADE Business School, Tecnológico de Monterrey. Previously, she was the Ph.D. in Business Administration Program Director and Research Director. Dr. Dávila has co-edited several books, research chapters, and journal-refereed articles on Latin-American work culture and human resource management. In addition to culture and human resource management in Latin-American organizations, her current research interests include human development and social sustainability. Dr. Dávila earned her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the Universidad Regiomontana in Monterrey, her MBA degree from the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, and her Ph.D. in Educational Administration from The Pennsylvania State University, with the support of the USAID Fulbright Foreign Student Program. Her expertise is organization and management, strategic human resource management, strategic management, social sustainability, human development, and labor culture.

Anne Miroux is Faculty Fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute 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 developing-country debt, 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.

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. Mr. Pavone has experience in emerging markets, private sector development, competitiveness, investment promotion, and business climate assessment. He held several positions in private sector development and global relations during his nine years at the OECD and previously worked in consulting and international development. Mr. Pavone holds an MBA from HEC Paris and a Master’s degree in Economics from Sapienza – Università di Roma. He is a member of the Faculty Advisory Council of the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell SC Johnson College of Business.

Lourdes Casanova is a senior lecturer and the Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute in the SC Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. She has been named one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals and one of the 30 most influential Iberoamerican women intellectuals by Esglobal, a digital magazine on international relations. Dr. Casanova is a Fulbright Scholar and has a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Barcelona. Her commentary has been featured in Latin Trade, Agenda Publica, CNN en Español, and Voice of America.

Paloma Fernández is Professor of International Business History and Family Businesses in the Department of Economic History, Institutions and Policy, and World Economy at the Universitat de Barcelona. Dr. Fernández is currently principal researcher of a competitive public research project and participant in a European Union Horizon 2020 RISE project involving 16 centers on three continents. She earned her Ph.D. in History from the University of California at Berkeley in 1994. Dr. Fernández’s research interests have focused on family businesses, innovation, internationalization, cross-cultural management, entrepreneurial networks, and diasporas in emerging economies of both past and present times. Her current research focuses on the emergence of a managerial revolution in new large hospitals of the world in the first half of the 20th century, and she has a book forthcoming from Emerald Publishers. Dr. Fernández was twice awarded the ICREA Academia Distinction for Excellence in Research (2008 and 2018) and awarded the Best Book on Economic History by the Spanish Association of Economic History in 2018 for a collective book on family businesses in Latin America and Spain.

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.

Veneta Andonova is Associate Professor and, since November 2019, Dean of Universidad de los Andes School of Management 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.