Meet our Leaders
As AIB US Northeast’s main governing body, our leadership team is responsible for member outreach, facilitating professional development opportunities, and organizing our annual Chapter Conference.
Below, you’ll find background details on each of our team members, our roles and responsibilities, and contact information to help you connect with us online.
Vice Chair
The Vice-Chair assists the Chair with all the Chapter’s businesses; In the Chair’s absence, the Vice-Chair shall perform the Chair’s functions.
Jun Li
Dr. Jun Li is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management, previously the Academic Director of the Full-time MBA Program, and the Academic Director of MBA Programs at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics of the University of New Hampshire. He holds a Ph.D. degree in Strategic Management from Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. Dr. Li teaches Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, International Business, and International Management courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He is the lead faculty for Paul College’s MBA International Residency, a cultural & international business immersion program that takes Paul EMBA and FTMBA students abroad.
Dr. Li’s research focuses on top management teams, founding / entrepreneurial teams, innovation, venture creation, global strategies, and emerging markets. His most research examines top management team functional complementarity and post-IPO firm performance. Dr. Li’s research appears in Long Range Planning, Management Decision, New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, Journal of Business Research, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Journal of High-Technology Management Research, and others. He is the Associate Editor for the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship and the editorial board member for the International Journal of Entrepreneurship Behavior and Research. He was the Caucus Committee Chair of the Academy of Management (2020-2022), Program Chair for AIB USNE Chapter 2019 and 2021, and Vice Chair of AIB USNE Chapter from 2020-2022.
Before academia, Dr. Li worked with a leading Chinese commercial bank where he served as a manager and a consultant to exporting and trading companies in Shenzhen, China.
Juan Bu
Vice Chair, Academic Programs
Vice Chair of Academic Program
The Vice Chair of Academic Programs works with the Chair to oversee AIBNE’s academic programs, including the annual conference and interim academic activities, such as symposia, workshops, etc.
Frank L. DuBois
Dr. Juan Bu is an Assistant Professor of International Business at the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Juan’s research interests include global strategy, corporate governance, and innovation, particularly in the context of emerging markets. Juan has published articles in the Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, and other academic outlets. Juan has won many research and teaching awards such as the Academy of International Business (AIB) and Academy of Management (AoM) Best Paper Awards, the Women in AIB Emerging Scholar Award, the Kelley School of Business Research Award, and FACET’s Mumford Excellence in Extraordinary Teaching Award.
Juan serves as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, and Management and Organization Review. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Miami. Before entering academia, Juan had full-time work experience at Unilever (London, UK), China Mobile (Guangzhou, China), and a fund management company (Shanghai, China).
Liu Wang
Vice Chair, Events and Operations
Vice Chair of Event and Operation
The Vice Chair of Operations works with the Chair, to oversee the operational aspects of the AIBNE Annual Conference and other strategic initiatives.
George O White III
Dr. Liu Wang is Ruane Endowed Professor of Finance at Providence College and Director of Research at Balanced Wealth Management. She received her Ph.D. in Finance with a supporting area of focus in International Business from Old Dominion University. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®). Dr. Wang’s research has appeared in a wide array of academic journals, including European Financial Management, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of Business Ethics, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Journal of International Money & Finance, Global Finance Journal, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management, among others. She currently serves as a Senior Editor at International Journal of Emerging Markets and as an Associate Editor at New England Journal of Entrepreneurship. In addition to being a prolific scholar, Dr. Wang also serves as Board of Directors for several local and international organizations, including the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Society and WaterFire Providence.
Anna Lamin
Treasurer
Anna Lamin
Anna Lamin is an Associate Professor of International Business and Strategy at Northeastern University. Her research centers on how firms in emerging markets build capabilities. She examines how innovation clusters influence the location decisions of firms, how business group affiliation affects strategy, and headquarter attention to subsidiaries. Her research appears in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of International Business Studies, and Research Policy.
She is currently a senior editor at Asia-Pacific Journal of Management and serves on the Editorial Review Boards of Journal of International Business Studies, Global Strategy Journal, and Journal of World Business. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Treasurer
The Treasurer is responsible for maintaining the Chapter’s accounts, collecting funds, sponsorship donations, and making payments for necessary activities of the Chapter. He/she is also responsible for preparing financial reports and communicating the Chapter’s financial status to the Chapter leadership team at the annual board meeting.
Pallavi Shukla
Communication Officer
Communication Officer
The Communication Officer’s responsibilities include maintaining and organizing chapter media/membership data, managing chapter social media communications, assisting the chair in producing the chapter newsletter and website news posts, recording board meeting minutes, and assisting the leadership with chapter promotional and marketing campaigns.
Pallavi Shukla
Dr. Pallavi Shukla is Assistant Professor in the Department of Management & Global Business at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick. She received her Ph.D. in Management from Rutgers University. Professor Shukla’s research interests lie at the intersection of global strategy, migration, and institutions literature streams. Her research uses a socioeconomic theoretical lens to examine the role of migrants in bridging cross-border locations. She is especially interested in investigating how migrants and their institutions affect the global strategies of multinational firms. She has published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, and Rutgers Business Review; her recent papers can be accessed at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pallavi_Shukla3.
Before coming to academia, Professor Shukla worked in the financial services industry for over a decade in New York City and Mumbai. During this time, she worked on several information technology projects for the National Stock Exchange of India, Tata Consultancy Services, Bear Stearns, and JP Morgan and held various positions ranging from software consultant to Associate Director.
Professor Shukla teaches International Business, Business Policy & Strategy, and Global Management & Strategy at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick. She can be reached via email at pallavi.shukla@rutgers.edu
Crystal Jiang
Immediate Past Chapter Chair
Advisor
Chapter Chair
The Chapter Chair oversees all executive committee functions, including membership outreach, event coordination, and financial management.
Crystal Jiang
Crystal Jiang has over two decades of business and university experience. She is currently a Professor of Management at Bryant University. In addition to her role as an Executive Board Member of the Academy of International Business U.S. Northeast Chapter, she also serves as Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, and Caucus Committee Chair for the Academy of Management (AoM) Annual Conference (2018) and Past Caucus Chair for AoM 2019.
Dr. Jiang is Lego® Series Play® (LSP) facilitator with certificate in facilitating and designing LSP workshops for business, organizational, team and personal development.
Crystal’s research has published in journals such as the Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, among others.
John Cantwell
Dr. John Cantwell is Distinguished Professor of International Business at Rutgers University. He was previously Professor of International Economics at the University of Reading. He has also been a Visiting Professor of Economics at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, the University of the Social Sciences, Toulouse, and the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna. He holds a BA degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford (New College), an MSc degree in Economics from the University of London (Birkbeck College), and a PhD in International Business from the University of Reading, where he was appointed to his first faculty position in 1984.
John Cantwell’s main research areas are the analysis of corporate technological change and international business. He is the author of Technological Innovation and Multinational Corporations (Basil Blackwell, 1989), which remains one of the most cited books in the international business field, since it helped to inspire a new literature on the role of international networks in technology creation, which now lies at the center of the international business research area.
John Cantwell is a former President of the European International Business Academy (EIBA). As well as being an AIB Fellow, in 2001 he was elected as one of four EIBA Founding Fellows, and he was the first Secretary of the EIBA Fellows from 2002 to 2007. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of International Business Studies from 2011 to 2016. He is also a member of the editorial review boards of seven other refereed academic journals.
John Cantwell is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and a member of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He lives in New York City, and in Reading when he is in the UK.
Advisor
As a senior scholar in the international business field, Advisors provide professional consulting services to the chapter chair and other members of the leadership team.
Jonathan Doh
Jonathan Doh is Associate Dean of Research, Rammrath Chair in International Business, Co-Faculty Director of the Center for Global Leadership, and Professor of Management at the Villanova School of Business.
His research on globalization, emerging markets, nonmarket strategy, CSR and sustainability has been published in eight books, more than 80 refereed articles, 30 chapters, and over 100 conference papers.
Previously a trade negotiator for the U.S. government and senior advisor for Deloitte Touche, he received his PhD in strategic and international management from George Washington University. In 2015 he was elected a Fellow of the AIB.
Advisor
As a senior scholar in the international business field, Advisors provide professional consulting services to the chapter chair and other members of the leadership team.
Mohammad Elahee
Advisor
Mohammad Niamat Elahee
Mohammad Niamat Elahee Ph.D. is a professor of International Business at Quinnipiac University, CT, USA. He earned his Ph.D. with a double major in Marketing and International Business from the University of Texas Pan-American, USA and an MBA with a concentration in finance from the University of New Brunswick-Fredericton, Canada. He also taught at Dhaka University, Bangladesh; Universidad de Monterrey, Mexico; ESC-Rennes, France; Kedge Business School in Marseilles and in Bordeaux, France; Tianjin Foreign Studies University, China, and at the Sa’dat Academy for Management Sciences in Egypt. Most recently, he was a US Fulbright Professor at Al Zaytoonah University in Amman, Jordan.
Mohammad Elahee has published in many reputed international business journals and presented in leading international and national conferences all over the world. His area of expertise includes negotiation, consumer animosity, NAFTA, and South Asian Business. Dr. Elahee is co-author of a text on International Business that is being widely used in many universities and was also translated in China. He has also co-edited a book on Iran’s reintegration with the West in the aftermath of lifting the UN sanctions. Elahee has appeared in NBC, Fox News and NPR and has published op-eds in various newspapers in the US and other countries.
His works have appeared in the Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Business Strategy, Thunderbird International Business Review, International Journal of Innovation and Learning, Journal of Teaching in International Business, Competitiveness Review, European Business Review, and Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing to name a few. He is also a recipient of multiple teaching excellence awards and service awards. His consulting & industry experience includes working at Canadian Int’l. Development Agency, Deloitte & Touche, and the World Bank HQ at Washington DC.
Advisor
As a senior scholar in the international business field, Advisors provide professional consulting services to the chapter chair and other members of the leadership team.
Margaret Goralski
Past Chapter Chair
Advisor
Margaret Goralski
Margaret A. Goralski received her Ph.D. from the International School of Management in Paris France. Goralski is a full-time faculty member in the Entrepreneurship/International Business/Strategy Department, Quinnipiac University School of Business, Connecticut, USA. She is the Coordinator of the Capstone Business Experience and Champion of the UN PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Signatory initiative at Quinnipiac.
In addition to being Immediate Past Chapter Chair and Treasurer of the Academy of International Business US Northeast, Goralski is an Albert Schweitzer Fellow, a member of the UN PRME Working Group on Sustainability Mindset, UN PRME Global Working Group Liaison, Vice President of Publications for the International Academy of Business Disciplines and Editor in Chief of Quarterly Review of Business Disciplines, as well as, a Board Member and Senior Fellow of the American Society for Competitiveness. Goralski has traveled the world as an international businesswoman and has spoken at many international academic and business conferences on the cultural dimensions of business, artificial intelligence, and sustainable development.
Goralski has published worldwide on a vast array of topics. Some of her most recent publications include book chapters entitled Artificial Intelligence in the United States of America (Munoz & Maurya Eds., 2022), Handling Resultant Unemployment from AI (Munoz & Naqvi Eds., 2020), Using Our Time on The Planet to Make a Difference – The Sustainability Mindset (Tan, Gudic, & Flynn Eds., 2020), and Permissionless Evolution of Ethics – Artificial Intelligence (AI) (Munoz & Naqvi Eds., 2018). Journal articles include Artificial intelligence and sustainable development (International Journal of Management Education 18(1), 2020) and Education in the era of artificial intelligence: the willingness to listen as a new pedagogical challenge (ETHOS, 32(1), 2019).
Advisor
As a senior scholar in the international business field, Advisors provide professional consulting services to the chapter chair and other members of the leadership team.
Ram Mudambi
Ram Mudambi is the Frank M. Speakman Professor of Strategy at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. He holds a Master’s degree from the London School of Economics and a PhD from Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business (AIB) and a Fellow of the European International Business Academy (EIBA). He serves as an Honorary Professor at the University of Leeds, UK. He has been a Visiting Professor at Bocconi University (Italy), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Uppsala University (Sweden) and the University of Sydney (Australia).
He has published over 100 research papers in the leading academic journals of the world in a range of fields including economics, business, and geography. His work has been cited over 10,000 times according to Google Scholar.
His practitioner work has appeared in the Harvard Business Review, the MIT Sloan Management Review and the California Management Review. His media appearances include the New York Times, National Public Radio, The Atlantic Magazine, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Michigan Business Radio and numerous other radio and TV programs.
Advisor
As a senior scholar in the international business field, Advisors provide professional consulting services to the chapter chair and other members of the leadership team.
Attila Yaprak
Advisor
Attila Yaprak
Dr. Attila Yaprak is a Professor of Marketing and International Business and Director, Doctoral Programs at the Ilitch Business School at Wayne State University. He teaches MBA and doctoral program courses in international business, international marketing, and marketing theory and strategy. His research has appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of World Business, Journal of Business Research, Journal of International Marketing, International Marketing Review, International Business Review, and Political Psychology. He has served as an associate editor at the Journal of Business Research and on the editorial review boards of the Journal of International Business Studies, the International Business Review and International Marketing Review, among many other journals. He has been listed among the most prolific contributors to international business and international marketing journals.
Dr. Yaprak is a winner of several teaching awards, including the Outstanding Marketing Teacher Award given by the Academy of Marketing Science and the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Wayne State University. He has taught at, or has had research visits to, business schools in Austria, England, France, Finland, Germany, Spain, and Turkey. He has also taught at the University of Michigan, and Michigan State, and in faculty development programs at S. Carolina, Memphis, and Georgia State. His consulting work for the World Trade Organization has taken him to China, Nepal, the Philippines, and Thailand.
Dr. Yaprak is the current Historian and has served as the Executive Secretary of the Academy of International Business. He has served on funded research review panels in the United States, Canada, Hong Kong, and Israel. Dr. Yaprak earned BS and MBA degrees at Indiana University (1971 and 1973) and a PhD degree at Georgia State University (1978).
Advisor
As a senior scholar in the international business field, Advisors provide professional consulting services to the chapter chair and other members of the leadership team.
Past Chapter Leaders
We thank the following past Chapter Chairs for their contributions to the AIB US NE!
Crystal Jiang, Bryant University, 2020-2022
Margaret Goralski, Quinnipiac University, 2018-2020
Bertrand Guillotin, Temple University, 2016-2018
Stephen Manning, University of Sussex, 2015-2016
Mohammad Elahee, Quinnipiac University, 2010-2015
