EMI Academic Advisory Board
The Academic Advisory Board of the Emerging Market Institute consists of distinguished academics and experts. The purpose of the board is to:
- Nurture a collaborative community of experts and academics to exchange ideas and opinions on topics related to Emerging Markets
- Provide guidance to EMI on the overall direction of its research, its annual report in particular, with a view to enhance the impact of its work
Chairs: Lourdes Casanova and Anne Miroux, Emerging Markets Institute, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University Ithaca, USA

Momina Aijazuddin
Global Head of Microfinance/ Financial Inclusion, International Finance Corporation, U.S.
Veneta Andonova
Dean Faculty of Management, University of Los Andes, Colombia
Taotao Chen
Professor of International Economics & Management in School of Economics & Management, Tsinghua University, U.S.
Antoni Estevadeordal
Faculty at the Barcelona Institute of International Studies IBEI
Paloma Fernández Pérez
Professor of International Business History and Family Businesses, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Diego Finchelstein
Professor Escuela de Administración y Negocios, University of San Andres, Argentina
Peter Gammeltoft
Senior Researcher, DTU Orbit, Denmark
Alicia García Herrero
Chief Economist for Asia Pacific at NATIXIS, Senior Advisor at TABF, Mexico
Tarun Khanna
Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor Director South Asia Initiative, Harvard Business School, U.S.
Xavier Mendoza
Former Dean, ESADE Business School, Spain
Moacir Miranda de Oliveira Junior
Dean Faculty of Economic, Administration and Accounting (FEA), University of São Paulo, Brazil
Fred Olayele
Director, Sprott Centre for African Research and Business, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University, Canada
Miguel Otero
Professor of Intenational Political Economy Instituto de Empresa (IE), School of Global and Public Affairs Madrid, Spain
Lorenzo Pavone
Deputy Head of Networks, Partnerships and Gender Division, OECD Development Centre, France
Mike Peng
Jindal Chair of Global Strategy Executive Director, Center for Global Business Jindal School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, U.S.
Ravi Ramamurti
University Distinguished Professor, International Business and Strategy Director, Center for Emerging Markets, D’Amore Mc Kim School of Business, Northeastern University, U.S.
Subramanian Rangan
Professor of Strategy and Management Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Court Endowed Chair in Societal Progress, INSEAD, France
Lisa Sachs
Director of the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and Associate Research Scholar at Columbia Law School
Ari Van Assche
Professor, Department of International Business, HEC Montréal, Canada
Daniel Garrett Van Der Vliet
John and Dyan Smith Executive Director Family Business, S.C Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, U.S.
Zhaohui Xuan
Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (CASTED), China