Cañizares Center for Emerging Markets

News, stories, and thought leadership related to the role of emerging markets in the global economy.

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Operation Car Wash: As Brazil faces challenges ahead, a silver lining appears

Guest Post: As Brazil is forced to face harsh truths about its systemic corruption, Operation Car Wash and the actions thereafter signal future hope.

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Has Turkey squandered its post-Ottoman Empire national ambition?

In his emerging markets opinion piece, Nitin Bajaj, MBA ’20, explains how the Turkish president has heaved Turkey to the brink of economic recession.

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ROBERTO CANIZARES, BS ‘71, MBA ‘74

Rob Cañizares' leadership experience in successfully building and transforming businesses around the world span more than two decades. In senior executive roles leading their successful globalization, he focused the formulation & implementation of strategy, and on building, coaching and developing multinational organizations. In this Jubilant stage of his career, he advises and mentors founders of […]

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RUSTOM DESAI, MBA ’95

Rustom Desai is currently director, commercial operations, Precision Glass Solutions. Precision Glass Solutions was formed to establish Corning as a leading glass-based solutions player in the consumer electronics, Internet of Things and semiconductor industries. He is responsible for leading all commercial aspects of this newly formed business- including product line management, sales, customer service, application […]

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Peter Cornelius

Peter Cornelius is a Managing Director at AlpInvest Partners, which is part of the Investment Solutions group of The Carlyle Group. At AlpInvest Partners, he is responsible for analyzing the economic and financial environment for private equity markets and examining the implications for the firm’s strategic asset allocation. Mr. Cornelius joined AlpInvest Partners in 2005 […]

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Dharmakirti Joshi

Dharmakirti Joshi is the Chief Economist at CRISIL limited- An S&P Global Company. Mr. Joshi has spent 29 years in economic research and consultancy. He spent 11 years at the National Council of Applied Economic Research before moving on to the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission, New Delhi, and then CRISIL. He often gets invited to […]

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RAGNHILD MELZI, MBA ’80

Ragnhild Melzi is Americas Society/Council of the Americas’ vice president of Public Policy Programs and Corporate Relations. She provides leadership for the organizations’ international programming, which attracts top government officials, global business leaders, and prominent policy analysts to confront matters of critical hemispheric importance at discussions that take place across the Americas. Randy has extensive […]

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Ravi Ramamurti

Professor Ramamurti founded and directs the Center for Emerging Markets. His research and consulting focuses on corporate strategy and business-government relations in emerging economies. He is currently researching the internationalization strategies of multinationals from Emerging Markets. He teaches courses on the global business environment and global strategy. Industry & Academic Experience Besides Northeastern University, Professor […]

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SERGIO COSTA

Sergio Costa graduated in Production Engineering from the Federal University of Minas Gerais and holds a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from Azusa Pacific University, USA. Besides having an extensive experience in the public and private sectors, Costa has great expertise in international affairs. Throughout his career, he has worked in areas such as new […]