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.
Crystal Jiang
Chapter Chair
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.
Jun Li
Vice Chair
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 to emerging markets like China.
Dr. Li’s research focuses on top management teams, founding / entrepreneurial teams, innovation, venture creation, global strategies, and emerging markets. His most research examines founder learning behaviors on firm innovation in Chinese private ventures. Dr. Li’s research appears in 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 is the current Caucus Committee Chair of the Academy of Management (2020-2021).
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.
Irem Demirkan
Communication Officer
Communication Officer
The Communication Officer is in charge of communication tasks of the Chapter, writing and distributing content to promote Chapter events.
Irem Demirkan
Dr. Irem Demirkan (she/her/hers) is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Management and Organizations Department in the Sellinger School of Business and Management at Loyola University Maryland, USA . Her research interests include various aspects of innovation in organizations and teams, strategic alliances, networks, and corporate entrepreneurship. Dr. Demirkan received her Ph.D. in International Management Studies with a focus in Strategic Management from The University of Texas at Dallas in Richardson, TX. Since then she has published articles in prestigious management journals including Management Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Research, IEEE-Transactions on Engineering Management, Group Decision and Negotiation among others. Dr. Demirkan is teaching strategic management, entrepreneurship, and international business courses at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Frank L. DuBois
Program Chair, 2022
Program Co-Chair
The Program Co-Chairs (academic and host institution) work with the Chair and Vice-Chair in developing the program for the AIB US-NE Annual Conference.
Frank L. DuBois
Frank L. DuBois is Associate Professor in the Information Technology and Analytics Department at the Kogod School. His research focuses on configuration and coordination issues in the international manufacturing strategies of Multinational Enterprises and on general international business issues. He developed the Kogod Made in America Auto Index (http://kogodnow.com/autoindex/) about which he has been quoted extensively in the general and automotive press. His work has appeared in various outlets including the Journal of International Business Studies,International Marketing Review, Journal of Global Information Management, the International Trade Journal,Production and Inventory Management Journal, Production Planning and Control, numerous book chapters and conference proceedings. He has made presentations on International Business topics to audiences ranging from elementary school students to members of the Mexican Congress. He has taught in programs in Switzerland, Russia, Poland, Barbados, Morocco, and Brazil and has developed and led MBA and Undergraduate study tours to China, Brazil, Argentina and Chile. He has held teaching or research positions at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, Moscow Institute of Electronics Technology in Zelenograd, RU and IMD International in Lausanne, Switzerland. In addition, he has served as a consultant for numerous domestic and international organizations, including the Organization of American States, the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Family Faith and Future, Truth in Advertising, UPS, US AID, Volvo-Penta, and ITT Gwaltney. He earned a BS in Finance from Virginia Tech, an MBA from Old Dominion University and a PhD from the University of South Carolina.
George O. White III
Program Chair, 2022
Program Co-Chair
The Program Co-Chairs (academic and host institution) work with the Chair and Vice-Chair in developing the program for the AIB US-NE Annual Conference.
George O White III
Dr. George O. White III is a Professor of Strategic Management in the School of Management at the University of Michigan–Flint. He also serves as a Faculty Affiliate with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the Asian Institute of Management in the Philippines, and as a Visiting Professor at NIDA Business School in Thailand.
George’s research on global strategy studies ways in which the legal and regulatory environment influence multinational enterprise (MNE) nonmarket strategic behavior and performance outcomes. He has performed extensive fieldwork in Southeast Asia. His research has been published in a wide array of business journals such as the British Journal of Management, Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, International Business Review, Management International Review, Multinational Business Review, and Thunderbird International Business Review, as well as leading international law journals. George currently serves as an Associate Editor at Multinational Business Review and as Guest Editor at the Journal of International Management. He also serves as a member of the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of World Business, Journal of International Management, Management International Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Asian Business and Management, Journal of Asia Business Studies, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, and the European Journal of International Management.
George earned a Ph.D. in International Business from the University of Texas at El Paso; an MBA the University of Texas at El Paso; an LL.M. in International Commercial Law from Emory University; a J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School; and a B.A. from the University of Alabama. Previously, he worked as a government appointed economic adviser to the Shijiazhuang National Hi-Tech Industry Development Zone in China, interned with the Office of the General Counsel at the United States Agency for International Development (Asia and Near East Bureau) in Washington, D.C., and has acted as a strategy consultant to numerous organizations in China and throughout Southeast Asia.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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