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- Catherine Welch – Trinity College Dublin
- Dana Minbaeva – King’s College London
- Olli Kuivalainen – LUT – Lappeenranta–Lahti University of Technology
- Thomas Linder – Copenhagen Business School, University of Innsbruck, and WU Vienna
- Jorge Carneiro (moderator) – FGV EAESP São Paulo School of Business Administration
Catherine Welch is Chair of Strategic Management at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. She is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Aalto University, Finland. Catherine’s research has concentrated on context in international business research, particularly process approaches to studying firm internationalization. She has a particular interest in the uses of qualitative research methodology in management research. Her work has appeared in leading journals in international business and management. She has a track record of launching new disciplinary conversations and advocating methodological and theoretical pluralism. Most recently she has been writing about the impact of LLMs on IB scholarship. Catherine is currently a member of the Research Methods Advisory Committee of the Journal of International Business Studies. She is an Associate Editor of Organizational Research Methods. She was a founding member of the Research Methods Shared Interest Group (RM-SIG) of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and from 2022-2025 she served on the AIB Executive board.
Dana Minbaeva is Professor of Strategic Human Capital at King’s Business School, King’s College London, and holds a part-time professorship at Copenhagen Business School. Her research lies at the intersection between strategic human capital and international business. She has published more than 100 articles, book chapters, cases, and reports, with work appearing in leading journals including Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, and Human Resource Management. She is the author of Leading Strategic Transformation: The H-Factor (Emerald Publishing) and co-author of Encyclopaedia of Strategic International Management (Edward Elgar Publishing) and Workforce Analytics: A Global Perspective (Routledge).
Professor Minbaeva is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and the European International Business Academy (EIBA). She is the recipient of numerous national and international research awards, including the prestigious Journal of International Business Studies Decade Award. She has extensive editorial experience, having served as an Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review, Journal of International Business Studies, and Human Resource Management.
Olli Kuivalainen is Professor of International Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Business School of the LUT University (Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology, Finland) and Visiting Professor of Strategy at Manchester Metropolitan University Business School (UK). His main research interests include internationalization, international entrepreneurship, and international business strategy, and role of advanced technologies in internationalization, for example, how they change the way multinational enterprises manage and organize their operations. His research has been published in journals such as Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, Journal of International Marketing. He currently serves as an associate editor of the International Marketing Review, and he is also a member of the editorial boards of Journal of World Business and Journal of International Entrepreneurship.
Thomas Lindner is a Professor of international business with affiliations at Copenhagen Business School, the University of Innsbruck, and WU Vienna. In his research, Thomas works on understanding how companies make business decisions, with a focus on the global political environment, the role of artificial intelligence, and company finances. His research predominantly uses quantitative methods, and Thomas has contributed to developing such methods in the context of editorials, perspective papers, and special interest groups. In his policy-oriented work, Thomas works together with central banks and governments to improve data-driven decision-making as well as the education of gifted students. In his work oriented towards business practice, Thomas advises companies on internationalization strategies, the valuation of acquisition targets, and on developing measurement systems for social impact. Outside work, Thomas enjoys skiing, beach volleyball, reading science fiction, and travelling the world.
Jorge Carneiro is Professor of strategy and international business at FGV EAESP Sao Paulo School of Business Administration and was Academic Director of FGV’s OneMBA global executive MBA for nine years. Carneiro is VP Program-elect of AIB (Academy of International Business) and has served as Chair of AIB-LAC (Academy of International Business, Latin America and the Caribbean chapter) and as board member of EIBA (European International Business Academy) and of BALAS (Business Association of Latin American Studies) and chaired the Strategy division of ANPAD (the Brazilian Academy of Management). Carneiro is a member of the Strategic Committee of Corporate Governance of the Amcham Brazil and of the Strategy & Innovation Committee of IBGC (Brazilian Institute of Corporate Governance). Carneiro currently serves as senior editor of International Business Review, associate editor of Multinational Business Review and is a member of the editorial review board of Global Strategy Journal.
Carneiro’s research and teaching interests focus on the social impact of multinationals, the behavioral approach to strategy formulation and execution in multinational companies, impact of AI on strategic decision-making, and business dynamics in Latin America. Before embracing the academic career, Carneiro accumulated 16 years of practitioner experience, mainly in the oil & gas industry and in digital start-ups.