Lourdes S. Casanova

Biography

Lourdes Casanova is the Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute and a teaching professor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, part of the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business. A former member of the strategy faculty at INSEAD, she specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets.

In 2014 and 2015, Casanova was named one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. She also serves on the board of directors of the Boyce Thompson Institute.

A Fulbright Scholar, Casanova holds a Ph.D. from Universidad de Barcelona and an M.A. from the University of Southern California.

Education

PhD University of Barcelona, 1995
MA University of Southern California, 1989
MA University of Amsterdam, 1986
BA University of Barcelona, 1981

Research

• Casanova, Lourdes; Miroux, Anne. "Emerging Market Multinationals Report 2023: Risks and Realignments". Emerging Markets Institute, Cornell University. (2023): 136pp
• From copycats to Leaders: Innovation from Emerging Markets, Ed. Fernanda Cahen, Ed. Lourdes Casanova, Ed. Anne Miroux. Cambridge University Press. (2021): 250pp
• Casanova, Lourdes; Miroux, Anne. "Emerging Market Multinationals Report 2020: 10 Years that Changed Emerging Markets". Cornell University. (2020): 234pp
• Casanova, Lourdes; Miroux, Anne. The Era of Chinese Multinationals: How Chinese Companies Are Conquering the World. Academic Press. 1st ed. (2020): 224pp
• Casanova, Lourdes; Miroux, Anne. "Emerging market multinationals and development. Transnational corporations review, special issue"Transnational Corporations Review. 10.4 (2018): 285-287
• Casanova, Lourdes; Cornelius, Peter; Dutta, Soumitra. Financing Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Emerging Markets. Academic Press. 1st ed. (2018): 318pp
• Chen, Taotao; Casanova, Lourdes; Chen, Chen; Xu, Run. "Transnational Companies from China and Latin America. Lessons from a comparative analysis". (2017)
• Casanova, Lourdes; Kassum, Julian. The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream. Palgrave Macmillan. (2014): 224pp
• Casanova, Lourdes; Castellani, F.; Dayton-Johnson, S.; Dutta, Soumitra; Fonstad, N.; Paunov, C. "InnovaLatino: Fostering Innovation in Latin America". INSEAD/OECD; Ariel/Fundación Telefónica. (2011): 153pp
• Casanova, Lourdes. Global Latinas: Latin America's Emerging Multinationals. Palgrave MacMillan. (2009): 221pp

Awards

• One of the 30 most influential Iberoamerican women intellectuals by Esglobal (2017) Esglobal
• One of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal (2014 - 2015) Foundation for International Relations and Dialogue
• One of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal (2014) Foundation for International Relations and Dialogue