Dr. Luciano Ciravegna is an Associate Professor in Strategy and International Business (University of London, INCAE). His research interests include regional and global internationalization strategies, international entrepreneurship, and the impact of multinational companies on the countries where they invest. His focus is on emerging markets and emerging markets' businesses. His work has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, the Journal of Development Studies, the International Journal of Operations Management, and the Journal of Business Research. He has worked on research, consulting, and policy advisory projects in Argentina, Brazil, China, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Hong Kong, Italy, Nicaragua, Peru, and the UK. His background includes a BSc at the London School of Economics, an MPhil at the University of Oxford, St. Antony's College, and a PhD at the London School of Economics.

He is an alumnus of the United World College and a fellow of the Centro Studi D'Agliano. Dr. Robert Fitzgerald is a Reader in Business History and International Management at the Royal Holloway School of Management, University of London, specializing in business history, comparative management, international business, and the economies of the Asia Pacific and Japan. He has written on human resource management and labor, business cultures, economic development, marketing and consumption, and business organization, often from an international and comparative perspective, and has recently completed a book on the rise of the multinational enterprise from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. Dr. Sumit K. Kundu is a Professor and James K. Batten Eminent Scholar Chair in International Business at the College of Business Administration at Florida International University.

He has published several articles in prestigious journals-namely, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Studies, Management International Review, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Journal of International Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Leadership Quarterly, and Journal of Small Business Economics. He has served as a chair and member on ten dissertation committees. Dr. Kundu has presented numerous papers at the Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, and Strategic Management ociety conferences. He served as the track chair for the AIB annual conference in Stockholm, Sweden in July 2004; Milan, Italy in June 2008; San Diego, California in June 2009; and Nagoya, Japan in June 2011. Dr. Kundu organized the Junior Faculty Consortium at the annual Academy of International Business 2006 conference in Beijing, China and the Doctoral Consortium at the annual Academy of International Business 2012 conference in Washington, DC. He has also served as the president and program chair for the Midwest Academy of International Business Conference in 2003 and 2002.

He has worked for several global companies, such as Boeing, MasterCard International, Ingersoll-Rand, and Novartis, to name a few.