The rise of emerging market multinationals: this is how they can become global industry leaders
Emerging economies have gained ground in wealth and influence over the past two decades, bringing about radical changes in the global economic landscape.
MBA, École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Paris; diploma, Institut d'Études Politiques (IEP), Paris; PhD in Economics, University of Paris. Since 1980, with the United Nations: Economist, United Nations Centre on Transnational Corporations, New York, involved in the negotiations on the United Nations Code of Conduct on Transnational Corporations; with the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), working on issues related to international capital flows and developing country debt, and then foreign direct investment and transnational corporations; several years as team leader, World Investment Report, UNCTAD; currently, Director, Division on Technology and Logistics, UNCTAD, and Head of the Secretariat of UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development; responsible for activities in the area of innovation and technology for development, and transport and trade facilitation.