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Fueling Innovation in Developing Countries
Speaker Profiles
Paul Almeida is Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education (degree and nondegree programs) and Professor of Strategy and International Business at the
McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Professor Almeida is also
the Co-director of the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive M.B.A. program. He
received his Ph.D. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Almeida’s research studies strategy, innovation, knowledge management,
and collaborations in an international setting. He is particularly interested in
understanding how knowledge flows across people and organizations and how this
affects performance. He has published in leading journals such as Strategic
Management Journal, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of International Business
Studies, and Research Policy as well as in scholarly books. He has served on the editorial boards of
several leading journals and as Area Editor for the Journal of International Business Studies. Professor
Almeida was also previously Chair of the Technology and Innovation Management Division of the
Academy of Management. He has received the Georgetown’s Faculty Research Award and the Dean’s
Service Award.
Professor Almeida currently teaches executives and MBAs at Georgetown in the areas of strategy,
international business, technology and knowledge management. He has won the Joseph LeMoine Award
for Graduate and Undergraduate Teaching Excellence, Best Professor Award for Executive Programs at
Georgetown University, and is a seven-time winner of the Best Professor Award for Georgetown's
Executive MBA program.
Professor Almeida leads the Office of Executive Education at MSB. The office focuses on developing and
running innovative degree and customized certificate programs for executives with an emphasis on global
education and technology- enhanced learning. Executive Education offers six highly successful degree
programs including the Executive MBA (ranked #5 in the US by Financial Times), Georgetown-ESADE
Global Executive MBA (ranked #15 worldwide by Financial Times), Executive Master's in Leadership
program (EML), EML for DC Public School Principals, Executive Master's in International Business
(Brazil), and Master's of Science in Finance (online). In addition, Executive Education offers numerous
customized programs in as many as 19 countries around the world for companies like Rio Tinto (UK),
ICBC (China), Panasonic, Bayer (Germany), Abengoa (Spain) and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Paul Almeida conducts executive education and corporate seminars with many organizations, including
Microsoft, Gucci, Rolls Royce, IBM, Bechtel, Nextel, Sprint, Samsung, ARAMARK, AREVA, ENI, the
World Bank, US Chamber of Commerce, National Public Radio, OPIC, the Department of Agriculture,
FDIC, Federal Election Commission, Department of Commerce and Social Security Administration. He is
presently the faculty leader for the Presidential Leadership Scholar’s program run by four Presidential
Centers including those of President Clinton and Bush 43.
John Cantwell has been Professor of International Business at Rutgers
University, Newark, NJ, USA since 2002. He became Distinguished Professor
at Rutgers University in 2010. He was previously Professor of International
Economics at the University of Reading in the UK, where he was first
appointed as a Lecturer in Economics in 1984. He has also been a Visiting
Professor at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", the University of the
Social Sciences, Toulouse, and the University of Economics and Business
Administration, Vienna. Professor Cantwell is the author of “Technological
Innovation and Multinational Corporations” (Basil Blackwell, 1989). This
book helped to launch a new literature on multinational companies and international networks
for technology creation, beyond merely international technology transfer. This book alone has a
citation count approaching 2,000 on google scholar; Professor Cantwell’s total citation count is
well over 10,000. Altogether, John Cantwell has published fourteen books, over 70 articles in
refereed academic journals, and over 80 chapters in edited collections. His published research
spans the fields of International Business and Management, Economics, Economic History and
Philosophy, Economic Geography, and Innovation Studies.
Dr. Cantwell is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business
Studies from 2011-16, which is the leading journal in the field of International Business
scholarship. He was the President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA) in
1992, and in 2001 he was elected as one of four EIBA Founding Fellows. He served as the first
Secretary of the EIBA Fellows from 2002-07. In 2005 he was elected as a Fellow of the
Academy of International Business (AIB), and he was Vice President of the AIB in 2006-08,
when he was responsible for the program of the annual conference of the AIB held in Milan in
2008. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK. Professor Cantwell was also an
associate editor of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization from 2002-10.
Reid W. Click received his Ph.D. in Economics and International
Business from the University of Chicago in 1994. He teaches courses in
international financial management, international business strategy, and
international economics.
Professor Click’s academic research has been published in leading
journals, including the Journal of Asian Economics, Development Policy
Review, Journal of International Business Studies, International Journal
of Finance and Economics, and Journal of Economic Dynamics and
Control. His research has also been featured in Business Week and the Milken Institute Review.
He is the coauthor of a textbook, “The Theory and Practice of International Financial
Management” (Prentice Hall 2002), and coedited two volumes of International Finance Review
– “Value Creation in Multinational Enterprise”, with J. Jay Choi (vol. 7, Elsevier Ltd. 2007), and
“Latin American Financial Markets: Developments in Financial Innovations”, with Harvey
Arbelaez (vol. 5, Elsevier Ltd. 2004).
Dr. Click has been a consultant for several international organizations, including the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, the World Bank and
Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and has been a Visiting Researcher at the International
Centre for the Study of East Asian Development in Japan. During 2003, he served as Fulbright
Senior Specialist in Krakow, Poland, and subsequently as Visiting Scholar at the Johns Hopkins
University Bologna Center under funding from the World Gold Council. Since 2002, he has
served as a consultant for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Jeffrey Furman is an Associate Professor of Strategy & Innovation at Boston
University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER). Furman’s research addresses issues in the economics of
science and innovation and the strategic management of science-based firms.
His research has been published in leading academic journals, including the
American Economic Review (AER), Nature, the Review of Economics and
Statistics, Research Policy, and Industrial & Corporate Change (ICC). He has
also served on the editorial review boards of several internationally-recognized
journals, including Industry & Innovation, where he is currently Associate
Editor. He co-organizes the NBER’s Productivity Seminar series and recently completed a term
as a member of the Executive Committee of the BPS Division of the Academy of Management.
He currently serves as the academic director (Faculty Director) of the Boston University School
of Management Undergraduate Program.
Furman holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in Psychology from the
University of Pennsylvania; he studied managerial economics at the Free University of Berlin on
a Fulbright Scholarship; and he earned his Ph.D. in Management at MIT-Sloan. Prior to entering
academia, he had worked at a health policy consultancy in Washington, DC.
J.P. Gibbons is a Senior Investment Officer for the U.S. Agency for
International Development’s (USAID) Development Credit Authority
where he serves on the Strategic Transactions Group. JP is involved in
the origination and structuring of unique capital market solutions to
tackle development problems. He works to unlock needed financing
through the utilization of credit guarantees and other innovative
products, primarily in the environment and conservation sectors. Prior
to joining USAID in 2009, JP worked as a small business advisor with
the Peace Corps in Guatemala. JP began his career as an analyst with
Cowhey Girard Consulting, a financial firm focused on business valuation and transaction
advisory services. JP graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Finance and
Business Economics and earned an M.B.A. in Sustainability from Duquesne University.
Martine Haas is an Associate Professor of Management at the Wharton
School of the University of Pennsylvania. She previously served as a
Visiting Professor of Strategic and International Management at London
Business School and as an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
at Cornell University. She holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, an M.A.
from Yale University, and a B.A. from Oxford University.
Professor Haas’s research examines collaboration in global knowledgeintensive organizations, with a focus on global teamwork, knowledge
management, and managing human capital. She conducts multi-method
field studies at the intersection of international management, strategy, and the sociology and
social psychology of organizations. She has published articles in leading scholarly journals
including the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Management
Science, Organization Science, and the Strategic Management Journal.
Her work has received numerous awards including the Temple/AIB Best Paper Award from the
Academy of International Business and the William H. Newman Award for outstanding
dissertation-based research from the Academy of Management. She currently serves as an
Associate Editor for the Academy of Management Journal, and has previously served on the
Editorial Boards of the Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of International Business
Studies, and Organization Science, and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Organizational
Design, as well as on the Executive Committee of the OMT Division of the Academy of
Management.
Professor Haas is an award-winning teacher who has taught courses in global strategy, general
management, organizational behavior, and research methods to undergraduates, M.B.A students,
Ph.D. students, and executives. She has worked for McKinsey & Company in London and for
the international aid agency Oxfam, and has served as a consultant to a range of organizations
including the World Bank, Ernst & Young, the BBC, and the Tate Gallery of Modern Art.
Deepak Hegde is an Assistant Professor at New York University’s Stern
School of Business. He teaches graduate courses on Competitive Strategy and
Corporate Strategy at Stern.
His research focuses on innovation, intellectual property rights, and
entrepreneurship. His work has been published in journals such as Science,
Nature Biotechnology, Management Science, Organization Science, Journal of
Law & Economics, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Yale
Journal of Law & Technology, and Research Policy. He is a recipient of the
Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship (in 2012), the Kauffman Dissertation
Fellowship (in 2009), and the Thomas Alva Edison Fellowship (awarded by the U.S. Patent and
Trademark Office for 2014-2015).
Prior to joining Stern’s Management and Organizations department in July 2010, Dr. Hegde had
worked at Bosch, a large technology-based German company, and Abt Associates, a research
and consulting firm for the U.S. government and business sectors. He earned his B.E. with
distinction in Industrial Engineering from the Mysore University, M.S. in Public Policy from the
Georgia Institute of Technology, and Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of
California, Berkeley.
Nandini Lahiri is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Temple
University. Her research lies at the intersection of strategy, international
business and innovation. Her work has been published in the Academy of
Management Journal, Journal of International Business, Organization Science
and Strategic Management Journal. She serves on the Editorial Board of the
Strategic Management Journal and Journal of International Business, among
others. Nandini is the Chair of the Global Strategy Track at the Strategic
Management Society and a member of the Executive Committee of the BPS
Division at the Academy of Management. She received her Ph.D. at the
University of Michigan. At Temple, she teaches across the M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs.
Aija Leiponen’s research focuses on the sources and effects of technological
change in the economy. The overarching goal of her research program is to
understand the governance of innovation. For example, she has examined the
collaborative creation and transfer of knowledge between business service firms
and their clients, the effects of R&D collaboration on IP strategies of small
firms, the decentralization of R&D activities into geographically distinct units,
and the cooperative creation of technological standards in wireless
telecommunications. These studies have been published in leading management
and applied economics journals such as Management Science, Strategic
Management Journal, Organization Science, International Journal of Industrial Organization,
and Journal of Economics and Management Strategy.
Her ongoing projects examine the creation of open standards in the emerging smart grid industry,
the effects of wireless telecom industry consortia on firms' litigation activities, and the
emergence and governance of the (big) data economy. She is affiliated with the Dyson School of
Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University and with the Business School at
Imperial College London.
Danny Leipziger is the managing director of the Growth Dialogue, a
network that works to extend economic growth to as many places on the
planet as possible. Driven by a passionate belief that without growth,
sustainable development and improvements in people’s lives are
impossible, the Growth Dialogue seeks to connect high level policymakers
and thought leaders with those whose policy decisions can benefit from
practical experience and the latest work on economic growth.
Dr. Leipziger formerly headed the World Bank’s Poverty Reduction and
Economic Management (PREM) vice presidency, a network of more than
700 economists and other professionals working on economic policy, lending, and analytic work
for the World Bank’s client countries. In this capacity, he provided strategic leadership and
direction to regional PREM units as well as groups working on economic policy formulation in
the area of growth and poverty, debt, trade, gender, and public sector management and
governance.
He was heavily involved in positioning the Bank on major economic policy issues and in
managing the Bank’s overall interactions on these issues with key partner institutions – including
the IMF, OECD, WTO, EU and the G8/G20. He led the repositioning of the World Bank on
economic growth and launched the Bank’s Gender Action Plan. He advised to three World Bank
Presidents and represented the Bank at major international conferences.
Dr. Leipziger has also provided commentary and analysis in both English and Spanish to
newspapers such as the Financial Times and Le Monde, as well as to television networks such as
the BBC, CNN, and Bloomberg Television.
James Love is the Director of Knowledge Ecology International (KEI), a
nonprofit focused on access to medicines and knowledge resources with
offices in Washington, DC and Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Love is an
advisor to a number of UN agencies, national governments, international
and regional intergovernmental organizations and public health NGOs. He
is also the United States co-chair of the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue
(TACD) Working Group on Intellectual Property, the Chairman of Essential
Inventions, a member of the MSF working group on Intellectual Property,
and the UNITAID Patent Pool Expert Group.
Mr. Love was previously Senior Economist for the Frank Russell Company, a lecturer at Rutgers
University, and a researcher on international finance at Princeton University. He holds a Masters
of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a
Masters in Public Affairs from Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International
Affairs. In 2013, Mr. Love was awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award
alongside Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras, and Aaron Swartz.
Joanne Oxley is Professor of Strategic Management at the University of
Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Her research explores topics
related to vertical integration, offshore outsourcing and collaborative
strategies. She is particularly interested in how international differences in
economic and institutional environments impact firm strategy and
performance. She has published widely in management and international
business journals and currently serves on several editorial boards, including
as an Associate Editor at the Strategic Management Journal, and as a
Consulting Editor at the Journal of International Business Studies. She holds
a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, and was a faculty member at the
University of Michigan prior to joining the University of Toronto.
Anu Phene is Grub Distinguished Scholar and Professor of International
Business at the School of Business at George Washington University. Before
joining GW, she was an Associate Professor of Strategy at the University of
Utah. She received her Ph.D. in International Management from the University
of Texas at Dallas. Prior to that, she worked for American Express Bank in the
treasury department.
Her research focuses on knowledge creation and transfer, geographic
boundaries of knowledge, multinational firm and subsidiary evolution and
governance mechanisms. She has authored publications in Administrative Science Quarterly,
Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Strategic Management Journal,
Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Management, and Management International
Review. She was named David Eccles Faculty Fellow at the University of Utah from 2006-2008.
She has received the 2014 Trachtenberg Teaching Award at George Washington University, the
2010 GW School of Business Teaching Excellence Award, and the 2006 Brady Superior
Teaching Award at the University of Utah.
Ivan Rossignol is the Chief Technical Specialist, Trade and Competitiveness
Global Practice of the World Bank Group. In this global role, Ivan leads the
Bank knowledge agenda on issues related to Growth Strategies around
clusters, value chains and enclave approaches, and provides quality control
on all World Bank financed projects touching on competitiveness.
Prior to his current role, he was Sector Manager of FPD, South Asia Region.
Ivan held several positions within the Bank Group, including Sector Leader
in the Sustainable Development Department of the Africa Region; MIGA’s
Special Representative in Africa; Task Manager in the Private and Financial
sector unit of the Africa. Ivan was also seconded to COMESA in Africa to help set-up the
African Trade Insurance Agency, a multilateral agency registered under the United Nations
Charter.
Ivan was an Adjunct Professor at the Public Policy Institute of Georgetown University (2005 2008), where he lectured on international financial institutions and development economics. He
holds a Diploma from the Institut Supérieur du Commerce (Master’s Degree, France).
Jordan Siegel is an Associate Professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard
Business School. Professor Siegel's research focuses on how firms can
borrow foreign institutions as a means of substituting for weak
governance institutions at home, on how labor market institutions impact
the design and success of global business strategies, and on how culture
impacts the decision of where to locate foreign direct investments. In the
course of this research, Professor Siegel has done extensive fieldwork in
Latin America and East Asia. His work has been published in the Journal
of Financial Economics, Administrative Science Quarterly, the Review of
Financial Studies, Management Science, Organization Science, the Journal of International
Business Studies, and the Journal of Economic Literature.
Paul Vaaler has been a member of the Strategic Management &
Entrepreneurship Department at University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of
Management since 2007. Prior to that he was on the faculty of Tufts University's
Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and the University of Illinois (UrbanaChampaign) School of Business. Professor Vaaler is also Professor and the
inaugural holder of the John and Bruce Mooty Chair in Law & Business at the
University of Minnesota Law School. He is also an Affiliated Fellow of Oxford
University's Said Business School. Professor Vaaler's research and teaching
interests lie at the intersection of business, law and politics: understanding long-term
performance stability trends and their competition (antitrust) policy implications for firms in the
US; understanding how migrants from developing countries remit money and ideas to fund,
found and grow new businesses in developing countries with poor legal infrastructure; and how
elections change the attractiveness of new democracies for lending and investment. His courses
address business, legal and public policy issues associated with managing intellectual property in
firms, negotiating investment projects with the governments of developing countries, and
structuring public-private partnerships. He is the author and editor of books published by MIT
Press and Kluwer Academic Publishers, and journal articles published in Academy of
Management Journal, Economics Letters, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of
International Business Studies, Journal of International Management, Journal of International
Money and Finance, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Science, Review of
Development Economics, Strategic Management Journal and other academic journals. He serves
on the editorial boards of Academy of Management Journal and International Journal of
Strategic Change Management. He is Co-Editor of the Social Science Research Network Global
Business Issues electronic journal. Professor Vaaler is a lawyer with private practice and
government experience. He received his B.A. in History from Carleton College, his M.A. in
Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University where he studied as a Rhodes
Scholar, his J.D. from Harvard Law School, and his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Gurneeta Vasudeva is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management
and Entrepreneurship department at the Carlson School of Management,
University of Minnesota. Her research employs perspectives from
organizational learning, alliances and networks, and institutional theory to
examine questions of firms' technological innovation and corporate social
responsibility in global settings. Her doctoral thesis on how national
institutions shape firms' approaches to fuel cell technological innovation and
knowledge transfers, completed at the George Washington University, won the
best dissertation awards from the Academy of Management and the Academy
of International Business. Her research has been published in the Academy of Management
Journal, Management Science, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science and
Research Policy.
Gurneeta serves on the editorial review board of the Academy of Management Journal,
Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, and Global Strategy Journal, and is an
ad-hoc reviewer for other management journals. She is a recipient of the Dean's annual award for
research at the Carlson School, and has received multiple research grants including one from the
National Science Foundation to work as a visiting researcher at the International Institute of
Applied Systems Anaylsis in Austria, and two Grant-in-Aid awards from the University of
Minnesota. Prior to the University of Minnesota, Gurneeta taught at the Indian School of
Business. She has also worked as an international development specialist and energy policy
analyst in Washington D.C., U.S.A. and New Delhi, India. In this role she has collaborated with
the U.S. National Academies, World Bank, USAID, Department of Energy, Department of
Defense and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, as well as other government organizations in
Germany, Canada and Japan.
D. Eleanor Westney is Sloan Fellows Professor of Strategy and International
Management Emerita at MIT Sloan School of Management, and Visiting
Researcher at Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland. From 2007 to 2014 was
Scotiabank Professor of International Business and Professor of Organization
Studies at the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto. After
completing a B.A. and an M.A. in Sociology and Japanese studies at the
University of Toronto, she received a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1978 from
Princeton University, and began her teaching career in the Department of
Sociology at Yale University. From 1982 to 2007, she joined the faculty of the M.I.T. Sloan
School of Management, where from 1997 to 2007 she held the Sloan Fellows Chair in the
Strategy and International Management group. Her first book, “Imitation and Innovation: The
Adoption of Western Organizational Forms in Meiji Japan” (Harvard University Press, 1987),
explored the patterns of cross-border organizational learning, a theme that has continued to be a
major focus of her interests. With Sumantra Ghoshal, she edited “Organization Theory and the
Multinational Corporation” (Macmillan, 1993; second edition 2005), and with several of her
M.I.T. colleagues has written a text on organizational processes, “Managing for the Future”
(Southwestern, 3rd edition 2005). She has written extensively on the organization of
multinational corporations, on Japanese MNCs, and on the internationalization of research and
development. She has been a visiting researcher at Hitotsubashi University and the University of
Tokyo in Japan, a visiting professor at the University of Michigan, a Fellow of the Academy of
International Business since 1997, Chair of the International Management division of the
Academy of Management, and Dean of the AIB Fellows from 2008 to 2011.