Lourdes Casanova

Senior Lecturer & Gail and Rob Cañizares Director, Emerging Markets Institute, Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business, Cornell University. Visiting professor at Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley; Judge Business School, University of Cambridge; Latin American Centre, University of Oxford and University of Zurich. Consultant Inter-American Development Bank. Authored and Co-authored several books and articles. Formerly at INSEAD, specializes in international business with focus on emerging markets multinationals. Awarded in 2014 and 2015 one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. Fulbright Scholar with Masters from University of Southern California and PhD from University of Barcelona. Member of Latin America Global Agenda Council and Competitiveness in Latin America taskforce of World Economic Forum, B20 Task Force on ICT and Innovation, G20 summit, Los Cabos (2012), Goldman Sachs 10,000 women initiative. Board member Boyce Tompson Institute, MYDocumenta, Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau and Advisory Council of the Tompkins Public Library. Founding board member Emerging Multinationals Research Network. Co-founder of Ithaca Hub, Global Shapers. Writer of op-ed Latin Trade http://latintrade.com/ and regular contributor to CNN en español http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/ .Member of Latin America Global Agenda Council and Competitiveness in Latin America taskforce of World Economic Forum, B20 Task Force on ICT and Innovation, G20 summit, Los Cabos (2012), Goldman Sachs 10,000 women initiative. Board member Boyce Tompson Institute, MYDocumenta, Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau and Advisory Council of the Tompkins Public Library. Founding board member Emerging Multinationals Research Network. Co-founder of Ithaca Hub, Global Shapers. Writer of op-ed Latin Trade http://latintrade.com/ and regular contributor to CNN en español http://cnnespanol.cnn.com/ .