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 Gail and Rob Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. 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. In 2014 and 2015, Lourdes Casanova was appointed as one of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal.[2] Also, she is member of the Board of Directors of Boyce Thompson Institute.
Lourdes Casanova is a Senior Lecturer of Management at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Business, Cornell University, since 2012. She is also the Gail and Rob Cañizares Director of the Emerging Markets Institute. For the previous 23 years she was a lecturer in the Strategy Department of INSEAD.
Casanova is also a former awardee of the Fulbright Scholar Program.
She is a member of the Global Agenda Council on Latin America. Also, she's a member of the Competitiveness in Latin America Task Force and of the Global Agenda Council on Latin America of the World Economic Forum,.[3] Furthermore, she is a board member and chairperson of the Compensation Committee of the Boyce Thompson Institute, a member of the Advisory Committee European Union/Brazil, the World Investment Network of the UNCTAD, 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[4] 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,[5] and a founding Board Member of the Societé des Amis du Chateau de Fontainebleau. She is also a consultant at the Inter-Development Bank.
Casanova speaks Catalan, Spanish, French, English, Portuguese, Italian and Dutch.
Taotao Chen, Lourdes Casanova, Chen Chen, Run Xu. 2017. Transnational Companies from China and Latin America. Lessons from a comparative analysis. 2017. Report for CAF. Taotao Chen, Lourdes Casanova, Chen Chen, Run Xu.
Casanova with Anne Miroux wrote the forthcoming Emerging Multinationals coming of age. Casanova with P. Hertenstein and B. Hobdari edited the 2016 book New Wine in Old Bottles? The Role of Emerging Markets Multinationals in advancing IB Theory and Research in the International Journal of Emerging Markets, a special Issue. in 2015, Casanova with Julian Kasum wrote the book Brazil - A Economia Política de uma Potência Global Emergente. This book is available in English.
Casanova has published numerous reports, 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.
Casanova, L. 2021. La Estrategia Comercial de Biden. ¿Será Latinoamérica una prioridad para el nuevo gobierno de Estados Unidos? Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. Volumen 21. Númro 1. Enero-Marzo 2021. http://revistafal.com/la-estrategia-comercial-de-biden/
Casanova, L. 2020. El daño económico del covid-19 en Latinoamérica. Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica. Volumen 20. Número 3. ITAM. July/September 2020. http://revistafal.com/fal-20-3/
Casanova, L.; Miroux, A. 2018. Special Issue (Transnational Corporation Review. Special Issue. Volume 10, Number 4, December 2018. Emerging Market Multinationals and Economic Development. Taylor & Francis online. doi:10.1080/19186444.2019.1573599
Casanova, L. and A. Miroux 2017, “The Rise of the Global Chinese Company” in OECD EMnet (2017), “Business Insights on Emerging Markets 2016”, OECD Emerging Markets Network, OECD Development Centre, Paris.[18]
Casanova, L. and Kassum, J. 2017. Are Brazilian Multinationals competitive enough? In Multilatinas: Strategies for Internationalization. Andonova, V., and Losada, M. (editors). Cambridge University Press.
Casanova, L.; Chen C.; Taotao C.: 2016. China and Latin America Go Global: A Comparison of the Characteristics and Development Phases of Outward Foreign Direct Investment. EMI Johnson Working Papers. Cornell University.
Casanova, L. 2016. China and Latin America Go Global: A Comparison of the Characteristics and Development Phases of Outward Foreign Direct Investment. EMI Johnson Working Papers. Cornell University.
Casanova, L. and Sukriti Jain. 2016. Innovation in Latin America. In Haar, J. and Ernst, R. (editors), Innovation in Emerging Markets. International Political Economy series. Palgrave Macmillan.
Casanova, L. and A. Miroux. 2016, “Emerging Multinationals: The Coming of Age” in OECD EMnet (2016), “Business Insights on Emerging Markets 2015”, OECD Emerging Markets Network, OECD Development Centre, Paris[18]
Casanova, L. 2016. Latin American Multinationals moving ahead. In Fernández, P. and Lluch, A. (editors). Evolution of Family Business: Continuity and Change in Latin America and Spain. Edward Elgar.
Peña-Vinces, JC. Casanova, L. Guillen, J. & Urbano D. 2016. International Competitiveness of Small and Medium-sized Enterprises: Peru, a Latin-American Emerging Market. Emerging Markets Finance and Trade. doi:10.1080/1540496X.2016.1156525 (in press).
Rullá n S. and Casanova, L. 2015. Innovation in Latin America: the Case of Mexico. Special Issue of Dubrovnik International Economic Meeting in International Journal of Business and Economic Sciences Applied Research. Vol. 8 Issue 3: 59-68. December 2015.[22]
Casanova, L. Latin American multinationals facing the new reality. 2015. Revista Brasileira de Comercio Exterior (RBCE) nr. 123. Ano XXIX. A revista da Funcex: Fundaçao Centro Estudos de Comércio Exterior. Brazil. April–May–June 2015.
Casanova, L. & Kassum, J. 2014. The Brasília Consensus: Looking for a second wind. The World Financial Review. September–October.
Awarded in 2017 - One of the 30 most influential Iberoamerican women intellectuals by Esglobal.[23]
Awarded in 2014 and 2015 – One of the 50 most influential Iberoamerican intellectuals by Esglobal, published by the Foundation for International Relations and Dialogue (Fundación para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior, FRIDE), offspring of Foreign Policy en español).[24][25]
In 1987 she was awarded the Fulbright Scholar Program.
^Casanova, L.; Kassum, J. (2014). The Political Economy of an Emerging Global Power: In Search of the Brazil Dream. International Political Economy Series. Springer. ISBN9781137352361.
^Casanova, Lourdes (2009). Global Latinas: Latin America's Emerging Multinationals. Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN9780230219960.
^Casanova, Lourdes; Miroux, Anne (7 April 2019). Vecchi, Alessandra (ed.). Chinese Acquisitions in Developed Countries: Operational Challenges and Opportunities. Springer International Publishing. pp. 1–16. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-04251-6_1. S2CID169625741.
