Lourdes Casanova is the Senior Lecturer and Gail and Roberto Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute in the Johnson School of Management, at Cornell University. Formerly at INSEAD, she specializes in international business with focus on emerging market multinationals. In 2014 and 2015, she was named one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal. She has also been a Faculty Fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and was a Fulbright Scholar, earning her Master degree from the University of Southern California and her 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, University of Cambridge and Latin American Centre, University of Oxford; University of Zurich and Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. She was a consultant with the Inter-American Development Bank and directed executive programs at INSEAD for senior managers including Telefónica, BBVA, Cemex and the Brazilian Confederation of Industries.

Anne Miroux is a Faculty Fellow at the Emerging Markets Institute, Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. She has over 30 years of experience in international trade and finance. She began her career in the United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations in New-York, and later joined the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) where she specialized on developing country debt, foreign direct investment and transnational corporations, and technology and innovation policies. For several years she headed the Investment Analysis Branch in UNCTAD and directed the World Investment Reports (WIR), the United Nations flagship report on FDI and transnational corporations and served as the Editor of the UN Transnational Corporations Journal. She published a number of papers and articles and led research projects and technical assistance activities in developing countries on debt, FDI and development.
Until late 2015 Anne Miroux was the Director of the Division on Technology and Logistics in UNCTAD, and Head of the Secretariat of the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD).
She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Technology and Management Center of the Department of International Development at Oxford University. She is also a member of the Board of NetExplo. Anne Miroux has an MBA from HEC, École des Hautes Études Commerciales, and a diplôme from IEP (Institut d'Études Politiques – Paris). She holds a PHD in Economics from University of Paris I - Sorbonne.