Date & Time: 17 November 2026, 09:00 UTC (View Local Time)
Hosts: AIB Emerging Markets Shared Interest Group
Point of Contact: Bin Liu (binliu@xmu.edu.cn)
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Event Overview: This webinar brings together leading scholars and experienced practitioners to explore how sustainable development challenges and opportunities are unfolding in and around emerging markets. As global pressures intensify—ranging from climate transitions and digital transformation to social inequality and geopolitical fragmentation—emerging markets have become critical sites for experimentation, innovation, and new forms of cross‑sector collaboration. The webinar will examine how multinational enterprises, local firms, governments, and civil‑society actors co‑create sustainable solutions, and how these efforts generate social good while reshaping competitive and institutional landscapes.
The webinar will feature a dialogue between academics whose research spans sustainability, innovation, and international business strategy, and practitioners working directly on sustainability implementation in emerging‑market contexts. By bridging conceptual insights with real‑world experiences, the webinar aims to deepen our understanding of how emerging markets can drive sustainable development and how IB scholarship can meaningfully contribute to this global agenda.
PANELISTS
Yingying Zhang‑Zhang is Professor of Management and Research Director at the International University of Japan (IUJ), and Chair of the AIB Emerging Markets Special Interest Group. Her work bridges academic excellence with real‑world impact, focusing on sustainability, innovation, and strategic people management in international contexts. Prior to joining IUJ, she served on the faculty of CUNEF (formerly affiliated with the Complutense University of Madrid), where she also directed the Centre for Knowledge and Innovation. She has taught extensively across undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs.
Recognized as an AACSB 2024 Influential Leader for her contributions to social impact, her career spans entrepreneurship, multinational corporations, and SMEs across diverse sectors—giving her a distinctive ability to integrate scholarly rigor with practical strategic insight. Her global academic engagements include visiting positions at Harvard University, Northeastern University, and the University of Göttingen. As Secretary General of the International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM), she plays an active role in advancing management scholarship worldwide. An accomplished researcher, she has received the Emerald Research Excellence Award and serves on editorial boards of leading international journals.
Holger Hanisch has been a DAAD long-term lecturer at Nanjing University since September 2025 and is also Vice Director of the German-Chinese Institute for Legal Studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Nanjing. He studied law at the Universities of Augsburg, Germany, and Dayton, Ohio, USA. After passing his first state examination in 1994, Holger Hanisch completed his legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Munich and spent his elective placement in 1996 at a German law firm in Shanghai. Following his second state examination at the end of 1996, he studied Chinese for a semester at East China Normal University in Shanghai in 1997 and taught German and international business law at Shanghai University. Subsequently, until mid-1999, Holger was a research assistant at the Chair of Private Law for Economists at RWTH Aachen University, before moving to Beijing on a DAAD scholarship to pursue his doctorate on Chinese insurance regulatory law.
Following his scholarship and completion of his PhD degree, Holger worked in Beijing as a consultant and later as deputy head of legal consulting projects for the German Agency for Technical Cooperation (GTZ). He then worked as a lawyer at a Chinese law firm and subsequently as head of legal and business consulting for the German Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. From 2006 to 2012, he worked in Beijing as legal counsel and CFO for the mechanical engineering companies DBT GmbH and Bucyrus International (USA), then as strategy manager for growth market products for Caterpillar Global Mining. After relocating to Germany for family reasons, Holger worked there from 2013 to 2018 as an independent lawyer and M&A consultant, primarily in Sino-European M&A transactions. Since 2018, he has served as managing director of a machinery production company in Brandenburg.
Yu Wang is Senior Expert at the Roland Berger Institute in Munich, where she focuses on macroeconomics, geopolitics, public policy, and emerging markets. With an academic background in International Relations and Economics, she applies rigorous analytical frameworks to advise multinational clients on policy shifts, macroeconomic risks, geopolitical developments, and market entry strategies. Her work spans U.S.-China relations, China’s foreign relations and investment, the Global South, and the changing global economic order.
Her career bridges international journalism and strategy consulting, giving her a practical understanding of how multinationals navigate both macro-level uncertainty and operational realities. Before joining Roland Berger, she worked as a journalist for Caijing magazine across China, the United States, Europe, and Southeast Asia, and later served as a Research Fellow under the German Chancellor Fellowship. Her long-standing focus on the globalization of Chinese firms provides distinctive insights into their strategic evolution and growing role in global markets.
Simon Collinson is the Tsingshan Chair Professor at TIABS in the School of Management, Zhejiang University (SOM, ZJU). He is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, the Royal Society, the British Academy of Management and the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), and an Associate at the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at Cambridge University. He has held roles at Edinburgh, Warwick (Deputy Dean, WBS), Birmingham (Dean, Deputy Pro-Vice Chancellor) and other universities. His research is on international business, regional innovation systems, inclusive economic growth, R&D commercialization and the management of productivity and innovation. He has conducted comparative international studies in Kenya, Japan, China, US, UK, and Europe. Simon has published in peer-reviewed journals, including JIBS, Research Policy, Organization Studies, Regional Studies, R&D Management, Business History, Science and Public Policy, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, the Academy of Management Perspectives, TASM, MIR, IBR, MBR, IJIM. His research has featured in the Financial Times, Sunday Times, Wall Street Journal, BBC Radio 4, and the New Statesman and he is lead author of the FT/Pearson International Business textbook (9th Edition, 2024).
Simon’s research increasingly engages with the challenges and opportunities of sustainable development in emerging economies, examining how firms, regions, and institutions can foster social good through innovation, capability building, and inclusive growth strategies. His work highlights how multinational enterprises and local ecosystems interact to shape productivity, resilience, and equitable development outcomes—issues central to the SDGs and to the future of global business.
MODERATOR
Shilpi Banerjee is a Senior Research Fellow at Hult Impact Labs, Hult International Business School. She serves on the Board of the Academy of International Business, Emerging Markets Special Interest Group. She holds a Ph.D. in Business Management from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a master’s in public policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. Her research examines the evolving role of business in addressing global challenges, including socioeconomic inequalities, modern slavery, corporate responsibility, business ethics, and sustainability. Her work has been published in leading international peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) and California Management Review (CMR). She is a recipient of the 2026 AIB Sustainability SIG–UNCTAD Impact Award. She is also a recipient of the 2026 Best Symposium Award from the Organization and Management Theory (OMT) Division of the Academy of Management (AOM) for the symposium, “All Talk, No Walk? Reimagining ‘Community’ in Contemporary Organizations”.
Shilpi holds a Ph.D. in Business Management from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a Master’s in Public Policy from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. She brings more than 15 years of experience in academic teaching, research, and higher‑education management across India, Singapore, Hong Kong, the UK, and the UAE. Her scholarship seeks to advance new ways of thinking about and practicing responsible business, with sustained attention to CSR communication, modern slavery, and global inequalities.