Affiliation: Florida International University
Bio: William (Bill) Newburry is the Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business at Florida International University (FIU). Bill is an AIB Fellow and a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Business School Center for Emerging Markets. He was the founding Chair of the FIU Department of International Business (2018-2023) after chairing the Department of Management & International Business (2015-2018). His research focuses on how multinational corporations manage and relate to subsidiaries and other local stakeholders when they invest in foreign countries, with a particular emphasis on reputation issues.
Bill is currently Editor of AIB Insights and was the Local Host Chair for the 2022 AIB Meeting in Miami. He previously served as Chapter Chair of the Academy of International Business Latin America (AIB-LAC) Chapter (2012-2018). Bill has been actively involved in many AIB roles and has attended every AIB Meeting but one (2001) since his first meeting in 1997. Outside of AIB, Bill is serving a five-year term (2019-2024) on the Academy of Management International Management Division Executive Committee. He also serves as President of the Consortium of Undergraduate International Business Education (CUIBE). He previously chaired (2008-2009) the Global Strategy Interest Group of the Strategic Management Society after serving in multiple other Interest Group positions.
Bill has published 45+ articles in top-tier journals, along with three books and another 20 chapters in edited books. He was awarded a Silver Medal for his publications in JIBS at the 2019 AIB Meeting. He serves on the Senior Advisory Board of the Review of International Business and Strategy, and on the editorial review boards of the JIBS, Journal of World Business, Journal of Management Studies, Global Strategy Journal, Thunderbird International Business Review, andCross Cultural and Strategic Management.
Before joining FIU, Bill was an Assistant Professor at Rutgers Business School. He earned his PhD in 2000 from New York University, with co-majors in international business and management. Prior to his academic career, he worked six years in the F-15 Contracts and Pricing Department at McDonnell Douglas Corporation.
Last Updated: August 2023