Emerging Markets Institute’s Annual Report

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.

John Manners-Bell is the chief executive of research organization Ti Insight as well as the founder of the Foundation for Future Supply Chain. He has over 30 years’ experience working in and analyzing the global logistics sector. Professor Manners-Bell has written five books on the industry, exploring topics such as supply chain risk, innovation and disruption, ethics, and emerging markets. He is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport and former Chair of the Supply Chain and Logistics Global Advisory Council of the World Economic Forum.

Kalman Kalotay joined the Institute of World Economics of the Centre for Economic and Regional Studies, ELKH, in Budapest, Hungary, in 2022. From May 1990 until his September 2021 retirement, he worked for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva, Switzerland, principally on investment issues (World Investment Reports, Investment Policy Reviews; 1996–2021) and South-South cooperation (1990–1996). Prior to joining UNCTAD, Dr. Kalotay taught international economics at Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary (1983–1990). At UNCTAD, he continued his teaching experience, lecturing on investment policy issues in more than 30 courses. 

Dr. Kalotay is the author of more than 30 refereed articles and more than 20 book chapters, predominantly on inward and outward foreign direct investment in transition economies. During his career, he participated in more than 30 academic conferences on investment issues. Dr. Kalotay received his Ph.D. from Corvinus University. He is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of East-West Business and the International Journal of Emerging Markets. Dr. Kalotay’s most recent publication is “The war in Ukraine deals a blow to Russia’s foreign direct investment links,” Institute of World Economics of the CERS Challenges № 238, Budapest, 4 March 2022.

Limin Chen is Full Professor in the School of Economics and Management at Wuhan University. She is also the Director of the Centre for Global Strategy Research at Wuhan University. Dr. Chen received her Ph.D. from Wuhan University in China and in 2008 was a visiting scholar at the Stern Business School of New York University. Her research interests are global strategy and institutional complexity, especially for Chinese multinationals.

Natharat (Kam) Mongkolsinh a PhD candidate in the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research explores how firms navigate and learn from rare events as they engage in innovation activities such as R&D investment and learning. More specifically, she is currently focused on how learning from political events (i.e., military coups) and from key milestone events around the time of venture founding (i.e., participation in accelerators) impacts various entrepreneurial and innovation measures. Natharat holds a BEng in Biomedical Engineering from Mahidol University (Thailand) and an SM in Technology and Public Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Ricardo Rozemberg has a Master in Economics and Public Policy from the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (Argentina). He joined the Inter-American Development Bank in 2020 as Senior Specialist on Trade and Integration. Mr. Rozemberg has over 10 years of experience in international consulting in the business of economic development and trade and investment promotion. Previously, he was the manager of the Investment Promotion Agency in Argentina, among other positions. Mr. Rozemberg is the author of several publications related to international trade, foreign direct investment, and economic development, and he teaches Master’s-level International Trade at Buenos Aires University and Economics at San Martin University.

Tony Carranza serves as an operations associate at the Inter-American Development Bank’s Office of Outreach and Partnerships (ORP). He leads the expansion of new products and developments related to IndexAmericas, IDB’s corporate sustainability index, encouraging resource mobilization, better sustainability practices, and its adoption with diverse stakeholders in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Prior to this role, Mr. Carranza worked as a B2B commercial specialist at Telefonica Central America, leading business intelligence initiatives and project implementation within the corporate and government segments. He has an MBA from Universidad Miguel de Cervantes (UEMC) and is currently pursuing a M.A. in Diplomacy from the diplomatic institute at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of El Salvador. He also has a Bachelor’s in Economics and Business from Escuela Superior de Economia y Negocios (ESEN).