Lourdes Casanova

Lourdes Casanova
Born Lourdes S. Casanova
Fraga, Spain
Residence United States
Fields International business, Latin America, emerging markets
Institutions INSEAD, Johnson School at Cornell University
Alma mater Universiteit van Amsterdam (M.A.),
University of Southern California (M.A.),
Universitat de Barcelona (Ph.D.)
Spouse Soumitra Dutta
Children 1
Website
http://lourdescasanova.mydocumenta.com/

Lourdes S. Casanova[1] is an academic, author and currently a Senior Lecturer of Management at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute at Cornell University. Before her appointment to Johnson School, Casanova was a Lecturer in the Strategy Department at INSEAD. She specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets.

Current Books

Casanova is coauthor of the book "The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream," published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2014, and author of the book “Global Latinas: Latin America’s emerging multinationals”, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2009 and financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. Furthermore, she coauthored “Innovalatino, Fostering Innovation in Latin America” in 2011 and “El papel de España en los Lazos Económicos entre Asia y Latinoamérica: Grandes empresas, Pymes y la ciudad de Barcelona como puentes entre las dos zonas” (“The Role of Spain in the Economic Relations between Asia and Latin America: Big companies, SMEs, and the city of Barcelona as bridges between the two zones”) in 2012.

Selected Works

Casanova has published numerous case studies, chapters in books and articles in journals including Beijing Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Business and Politics, and Foreign Affairs Latinoamerica.

Media Articles/Interviews

Research Interests

Affiliations

Lourdes Casanova is senior lecturer of Management at Samual Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Business, Cornell University, since 2012. She is also Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. For the previous 14 years she was a lecturer in the Strategy Department of INSEAD.

Past teaching experiences include visiting faculty positions and guest lecturer assignments at Tecnológico de Monterrey, HEC Montréal, ESADE Business School, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, San Diego University’s School of Business Administration, Oxford University’s Latin American Center, Cambridge Judge Business School, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona’s Institute of European Studies, Universität Zürich, and Haas School of Business.

Casanova is also a former awardee of the Fulbright Scholar Program.

She is a member of the Competitiveness in Latin America Task Force and of the Global Agenda Council on Latin America of the World Economic Forum, a member of the Advisory Committee European Union/Brazil, the World Investment Network of the UNCTAD, the B20 Business Summit’s Information and Communication Technologies and Innovation task force, a reviewer of Strategy Management Journal, and was responsible at INSEAD of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women Initiative. She is a board member of a start-up Documenta, a member of the Network of Interdisciplinary Research in Family Firms and the Nominating committee of the World Innovation Summit (HiT Barcelona). She is also member in the Executive Committee of the Cornell Institute for European Studies (CIES), member of the advisory board of the Tompkins County Public Library, a member of the NCE Standing Selection Committee, and a founding Board Member of the Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau.

Personal life

Lourdes Casanova was born in Fraga, a small town in Huesca in Spain. She speaks Spanish, Catalan, French and English, has working knowledge of Dutch, Portuguese and Italian, and basic knowledge of German.

Lourdes Casanova is married to Soumitra Dutta. The couple has a daughter currently pursuing a PhD in computational biology at University of Oxford.

References

  1. ↑ Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University: Faculty Profile

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