INNOVAlatino

Team

The Research Team

	Soumitra Dutta is the Roland Berger Chaired Professor of Business and Technology, and Dean of External Relations at INSEAD. He is the faculty director of elab@INSEAD, INSEAD's initiative in building a center of excellence in teaching and research in the digital economy in collaboration with leading international organizations such as Morgan Stanley, SAP, Cisco and Intel. He is the Chairman of the European Commission's Europe Innova panel on Innovation in the ICT sector and a member of the Steering Committee of eBSN, the European Commission's eBusiness Network initiative for SMEs.

	Mario Pezzini, Italian, is the Director of the OECD Development Centre. He joined the OECD in 1995 as Principal Administrator in charge of the work on Distressed Urban Areas and later he was the Head of the OECD Rural Development Program, Head of the Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division, and since 2007, Deputy Director of the Public Governance and Territorial Directorate. On several occasions, he has been economic advisor for international organizations and think tanks (such as ILO, UNIDO, European Commission and Nomisma) in the field of economic development, industrial organization and regional economics.

	Lourdes Casanova specializes in international business with a focus on Latin America and multinationals from emerging markets. A Fulbright Scholar during 1987-1989, she has a Masters degree from the University of Southern California and a PhD from the University of Barcelona. She has taught at INSEAD since 1989, was a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley from 1996 – 1999. She is a visiting Faculty at the University of Zurich since 2004 and a consultant of the Inter-American Development Bank since 2001.

	Jeff Dayton-Johnson is the Head of the Development Centre’s Latin America and Caribbean Desk, the principal activity of which is the Latin American Economic Outlook. Jeff also co-ordinates the Centre’s work on migration and development. Jeff received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and received his undergraduate education at Berkeley and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

	Nils Fonstad joined in December 2008 eLab. a global research center within the business school INSEAD focused on how public and private institutions throughout the world create value from the knowledge economy. He conducts research on innovation and on how organizations and countries develop and foster skills critical for competing in a global knowledge economy (i.e., "e-competencies"). Before then, he worked as a research scientist at MIT Center for Information Systems Research (MIT CISR).

	Adrià Alsina, who holds Spanish and Portuguese nationalities, is part of the Publications and New Media Team at the OECD Development Centre since November, 3rd 2008. Prior to joining OECD, he was media officer at the Spanish Trade Commission in São Paulo, Brazil. He did also work as a business reporter for several Spanish and international communication media such as Bloomberg, Dossier Economic or TV3.

	Rita Da Costa, a Spanish and Portuguese national, is a policy analyst for the Latin American and Caribbean Desk, where she combines research and outreach activities. She joined the Development Centre in November 2007 after having worked at the Spanish Permanent Mission to WTO/UNCTAD in Geneva as an ICEX young professional (Spanish Ministry of Industry Tourism and Foreign Trade program).

	Caroline Paunov is an Economist at the Latin American and Caribbean Desk. Previously she worked for the Development Economic Research Group of the World Bank, the United Nations’ Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, in Chile, and the Directorate for Science Technology and Industry of the OECD. She was also involved in an EU research project on industrial innovation and has experience working for the public policy sectors in Brazil, Spain and Germany.

	Alba Martínez is a Research Associate at Latin American Desk at the OECD Development Center where she is currently working on the InnovaLatino project and the Latin American Economic Outlook. Her professional experience includes the Center of Research for development (Centro de Investigaciones para el Desarrollo) at the National University of Colombia and the Intelligence of the Markets module at the Colombia International Corporation (Corporación Colombia Internacional).

	Nijole Vileikis, a Colombian and Lithuanian national, supports the InnovaLatino project as a Research Assistant at INSEAD, based in France. She holds an anthropology bachelor and has worked as the coordinator of social impact practice at the Universidad de los Andes in Colombia, and as a project consultant for the implementation of a pedagogical plan across different public schools in Bogota. Prior to InnovaLatino, Nijole was based in Lithuania where she worked in tourism at the Lithuanian State Department of Tourism.

	Elodie Masson, works on Media Relations at the OECD Development Centre. Her mandate is to raise public awareness on development issues with a view to influence policy change. She has recently focused on promoting macro-economic analysis on Latin America, South-South linkages, as well as thematic and sectoral issues including migration, remittances, ICTs and trade. Before then, Elodie spent 5 years working in a global consultancy in London. She holds a B.A. and M.A. from the Graduate Institute of International Relations in Geneva and an M.A. in communications from Westminter University in London.

	Shilpa Dodda is a Research Programmer at eLab, INSEAD Singapore campus. A computer engineer by education, she has previously worked with Broadcom in India before relocating to Singapore. At INSEAD, she develops web applications which showcase eLab's research used globally and the InnovaLatino Project website.

Thank You Notes: Vicky Zachariadou for her help in the design of the website and Carolina Hartley for her help with the research.