CONTRIBUTORS
TOMMY WEIR
In addition to his role as Editor-in-Chief
at EMB, Tommy is an author, speaker and
CEO coach to emerging market business
leaders as well as founder of The Emerging
Markets Leadership Center.
HANNAH STEWART
With a background in business journalism and
international development, Hannah is Managing
Editor at EMB.
RICHARD E. NISBETT
Distinguished Professor of Social Psychology and
Co‑Director of the Culture and Cognition program
at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. With
multiple seminal works to his name, he is one of
the most respected authorities in his field.
ELSIE KANZA
Head of Africa and member of the Executive Com‑
mittee at the World Economic Forum in Geneva.
Born in Kenya to Tanzanian parents, she has held
various positions with the Ministry of Finance and
Central Bank of Tanzania.
RICHARD D. LEWIS
A respected cross-cultural communication con‑
sultant, and author. He founded the Berlitz School
of Languages in Finland in 1955, and was knighted
by the President of Finland in 1997. He speaks mul‑
tiple languages and is currently Chairman of Rich‑
ard Lewis Communications Ltd.
BHARAT THAKRAR
CEO/Founder at WPP-Scangroup Ltd., the largest
multi-agency marketing and communication group
operating in Sub-Saharan Africa.
ANDREAS GEORGOULIAS
Lecturer in architecture and senior research as‑
sociate at Harvard Graduate School of Design.
His current research includes the development of
the Gulf Encyclopaedia for Sustainable Urbanism,
sponsored by the Qatar Foundation.
EFOSA OJOMO
STEVEN SONSINO
Founder and CEO of the Legacy Institute, and a
fellow in the Centre for Management Development
at London Business School, as well as a respected
author and speaker.
HELENA BARNARD
A professor at the Gordon Institute of Business Sci‑
ence (GIBS), University of Pretoria, and member of
the editorial board of the Global Strategy Journal.
LINDSAY MCGREGOR
& NEEL DOSHI
Lindsay and Neel are authors of the
New York Times bestselling book, Primed to
Perform: How to Build the Highest Performing
Cultures Through the Science of Total Motivation. They are also the founders of Vega Factor,
a startup that helps companies transform
their culture through process design, training,
and technology.
ANNA ROSENBERG
Editor-in-Chief:
Tommy Weir
Managing Editor:
Hannah Stewart
Creative Agency:
MullenLowe Dubai
Creative Agency CEO:
Mounir Harfouche
Executive Creative
Director:
Mark Lewis
Senior Designers:
Ann Umer
Jyotsna Lakhiani
Account Manager:
Valerie Lapointe
Account Executives:
Kevin Richard Harvey
Noora Al Qassimi
Practice Leader for Sub-Saharan Africa at Fron‑
tier Strategy Group. She is also a member of
Chatham House, the Royal Institute for Internation‑
al Affairs, as well as the Royal African Society.
A publication of Emerging
Markets Leadership
Center
VICTOR LIPMAN
Editorial Office:
Reuters Building
Suite 105
Dubai Media City
P.O. Box 65776
Dubai, UAE
+971 43758570
EMBreview.org
A
former
vice-president
of
corporate
communications for a Fortune 500 company as
well as an author and a regular contributor to
Forbes and Psychology Today. Victor also runs his
own consulting firm, Howling Wolf Management
Training.
ABDERRAHIM ETOUIL
Middle East-based journalist with expertise in fi‑
nance and economics.
A senior research fellow at the Forum for Growth and
Innovation, a research institute at the Harvard Business
School (HBS), led by Professor Clayton Christensen.
10 Emerging Markets Business Summer 2016 • Issue No. 1
Issue No. 01
Summer 2016