The Brightest Minds in Global Leadership
Faculty Focus
2018-19 Faculty Highlights
New Faculty Mark Esposito, Clinical Professor of Global Shifts and Founding Co-Director of Thunderbird’s Globalization 4.0 and Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative, will be teaching courses on global leadership, strategy, digital transformation, and circular economy. Mark comes to Thunderbird from Harvard University. He is recognized internationally as a top global thought leader in matters relating to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the changes and opportunities that technology will bring to all industries. He will continue to serve as a global expert for the World Economic Forum. Ann Florini, Clinical Professor, will be serving as the academic lead for one of Thunderbird’s new degree programs, the Executive Master of Arts in Global Affairs and Management in Washington, DC. Ann is a renowned educator, scholar and practitioner focused on innovations in the governance of both the public and private sectors. In addition to academic and think-tank work, she designed and ran the Global Governance Initiative on behalf of the World Economic Forum. Ann will continue to serve as our lead expert on governance for the Global Commission on Adaptation. Rebeca Hwang, Professor of Practice, will be teaching courses on global technology entrepreneurship, diversity and inclusion, family business, and Latin America. She
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is co-founder and managing director of Rivet Ventures, which invests in companies in women-led markets where female usage, decision-making and purchasing are crucial to company growth. Hwang also co-founded the startup YouNoodle, which connects startups with opportunities for growth, as well as Kalei Ventures, a venture fund focused on Latin American startups, and Cleantech Open, which has helped more than 1,000 “cleantech” startups raise more than $1 billion in external funding. Landry Signé, Professor and Founding Co-Director of Thunderbird’s Globalization 4.0 and Fourth Industrial Revolution Initiative, will be teaching courses on global governance and disruptive technologies. Landry is a world-renowned professor, leading practitioner and senior adviser to business and government leaders in the areas of global political economy and public policy, global business and emerging markets, global governance and development, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution and Globalization 4.0. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program at the Brookings Institution, and a distinguished fellow at Stanford University’s Center for African Studies, chairman of the Global Network for Africa’s Prosperity. Anne-Marie Slaughter, Distinguished Professor of Practice, will be teaching a new course titled Webcraft: The Craft of Global Networks in Global Affairs. The course will cover basic principles of network theory as applied to the design, development, and management of networks involving business, NGOs and government. Anne-Marie is currently the CEO of New America, a “think and action t ank” dedicated to renewing America in the Digital Age.
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