About this session
The session will feature an agenda-setting academic panel that will discuss themes based on the overall World Investment Forum and the direction for future research and policy analysis.
Speakers
Mr. Richard Bolwijn
Head, Investment Research Branch, UNCTAD
Mr. James X. Zhan
Director, Division on Investment and Enterprise, UNCTAD and Lead, UNCTAD World Investment Forum
Prof. Farok J. Contractor
Distinguished Professor, Management and Global Business Department at Rutgers Business School, and President of the Academy for International Business
Prof. Kunal Sen
Director, United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research and Professor of development economics at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Dr. Brooke Guven
Senior Legal Researcher, Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment, Columbia University
Prof. Robert Grosse
Professor of Business Administration and director for Latin America, Thunderbird School of Global Management
Prof. Sarianna Lundan
Chair in International Management and Governance Faculty of Business Studies and Economics University of Bremen
Prof. Ugo Panizza
Professor of International Economics and Pictet Chair in Finance and Development at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva
Prof. Yaw Nyarko
Professor of Economics at New York University and the Director of NYU Africa House, the Center for Technology and Economic Development, and Co-Director of the Development Research Institute
Prof. Xiaolan Fu
Professor of Technology and International Development and Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford University
Prof. Jennifer P. Poole
Associate Professor of Economics, American University
Prof. Heinz Tuselmann
Professor in International Business Manchester Metropolitan University and Deputy Editor, Transnational Corporations