Lourdes Casanova Email Address

Senior Lecturer and Director, Emerging Markets Institute, SC Jonson Graduate School of Management

Finding and fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in every Cornell participant - in every college, every field, and every stage of life.

Lourdes Casanova is Senior Lecturer and Academic Director of the Emerging Markets Institute at the Johnson School of Business, Cornell University. She specializes in international business with a focus on emerging markets multinationals. Recognized as one of 2014 and 2015, 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. Lourdes is a Fulbright Scholar with a Masters Degree from University of Southern California and a PhD from the University of Barcelona. She has been a visiting professor at the Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley; Judge Business School, Cambridge University; Latin American Centre at Oxford University, and a consultant at Inter-American Development Bank. Lourdes has directed programs for multinationals including Telefónica, BBVA. Cemex and Brazilian Confederation of Industries. Lourdes has coauthored: "The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream", Palgrave Macmillan 2014; "Innovalatino, Fostering Innovation in Latin America", Ariel 2011; and journal articles in the Beijing Business Review, European Business Review, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Business and Politics and Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. She has also authored: "Global Latinas: Latin America’s emerging multinationals", Palgrave Macmillan 2009. Lourdes is a member of World Economic Forum’s Latin America Global Agenda Council and Competitiveness Lab, the Advisory Committee European Union/Brazil, B20 ICT and Innovation Task Force Los Cabos, as well as INSEAD’s Goldman Sachs 10,000 women. She is a board member of Boyce Tompson Institute, the start-up Documenta, and the Advisory Council of the Tompkins Public Library.