A presentation of the EMI report on Emerging Markets Multinationals from China will be given by Lourdes Casanova and Anne Miroux.
Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer and Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute, SC Johnson School of Management, Cornell University, has been named as one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals and one of the 30 most influential Iberoamerican women intellectuals by Esglobal. She has been a Fulbright Scholar, and received a Masters from University of Southern California and a PhD from University of Barcelona.
Publications include: co-editor with F. Cahen, A. Miroux: From Copycats to Leaders: Innovation from Emerging Markets (Cambridge University Press, 2021); co-author with A. Miroux: The Era of Chinese Multinationals (Academic Press, Elsevier 2019); with A. Miroux: Emerging Market Multinationals Report 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 and 2016; with P. Cornelius, S. Dutta: Entrepreneurship and the Finance of Innovation in Emerging Markets (Academic Press, Elsevier); with J. Kassum: The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazilian Dream (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014); author Global Latinas: Latin America’s Emerging Multinationals (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Lourdes Casanova is a former member of the Global Agenda Council, Competitiveness in Latin America World Economic Forum for Mexico, Brazil and Colombia, B20 Task Force in G20 summit, Los Cabos (2012). She is also a board member of the Boyce Tompson Institute; co-founder of Ithaca Hub of Global Shapers; op-ed writer for Latin Trade, Agenda Publica; and contributor to CNN en español, El País and Voice of America.
Anne Miroux is a Faculty Fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute, SC Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. She has over 30 years of experience in international trade and finance. She began her career in the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations in New York, and later joined the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) where she specialized on developing country debt, foreign direct investment and transnational corporations, and technology and innovation policies. For several years she headed the Investment Analysis Branch in UNCTAD and directed the World Investment Reports (WIR), the United Nations flagship report on FDI and transnational corporations and served as the Editor of the UN Transnational Corporations Journal. She 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 Anne Miroux was the Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics in UNCTAD, and Head of the Secretariat of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD).
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Technology and Management Center of the Department of International Development at Oxford University. She is also a Board member of NetExplo and of the Foundation for Future Supply Chains, and a senior editor of the Transnational Corporations Review. Anne Miroux has an MBA from HEC, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, and graduated from IEP (Institut d’Etudes Politiques – Paris). She holds a PhD in Economics from University of Paris I – Sorbonne.
