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.
Chair
The Chapter Chair serves as the chief executive officer and principal representative of the AIB Northeast Chapter. The Chair provides overall leadership, strategic direction, and administrative oversight to ensure the Chapter fulfills its mission of advancing international business scholarship and fostering collaboration among members throughout the Northeast region.
The Chair presides over the Chapter’s governance processes, represents AIBNE within the broader Academy of International Business (AIB) network, and ensures that all Chapter activities operate in accordance with AIB policies and standards.
Jun Li
Dr. Jun Li is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management in the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire. He earned his Ph.D. in Management from the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University.
At Paul College, Dr. Li teaches courses in Strategic Management, Entrepreneurship, International Business, and International Management at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He also serves as lead faculty for the MBA International Residency, a global immersion program that provides EMBA and FTMBA students with first-hand exposure to international business environments and cross-cultural management practices.
Dr. Li’s research examines top management teams, founding and entrepreneurial teams, innovation, venture creation, global strategies, and emerging markets. His work has been published in leading journals, including Long Range Planning, Management and Organization Review, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Research, and Asia Pacific Journal of Management, among others. He is currently Associate Editor of the New England Journal of Entrepreneurship and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research. In addition, he has held leadership roles within professional associations, including service on the Academy of Management Caucus Committee and as Program Chair (2019, 2021) and Vice Chair (2020–2022) of the Academy of International Business U.S. Northeast Chapter.
Prior to entering academia, Dr. Li worked in the financial services industry with a leading Chinese commercial bank, where he served as both manager and consultant to exporting and trading firms in Shenzhen, China.
Ying (Cathy) Zheng
Vice Chair
Vice Chair
The Vice Chair serves as a key member of the AIBNE Board and supports the Chapter’s overall strategic and operational leadership. Working in close collaboration with the Chapter Chair, the Vice Chair ensures that AIBNE fulfills its mission to promote excellence in international business scholarship and foster a vibrant community of researchers, educators, and practitioners in the region.
The Vice Chair provides oversight across major chapter activities, supports the coordination of board initiatives, and assumes leadership responsibilities in the absence of the Chapter Chair. This role also serves as a bridge between academic programming, member engagement, and long-term strategic planning.
Ying (Cathy) Zheng
Dr. Cathy Zheng is an Associate Professor in the Finance Department of Bryant University. She is a CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) charter holder. Dr. Zheng received her PhD in International Finance from University of South Carolina. Her teaching interests include international financial management and global corporate valuation. Dr. Zheng’s research focuses on financial practices in a global context, incorporating corporate social responsibility, debt contracting, creditor rights, and social values. Her research work has been published in academic journals such as Journal of International Business Studies and Journal of Banking and Finance. She is a referee for business journals including Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Applied Accounting Research.
Crystal Jiang
Secretary
Advisor
Immediate Past Chapter Chair
Chapter Secretary
The Chapter Secretary provides administrative support to the Chapter Chair on all Chapter initiatives.
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.
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 shall be responsible for maintaining the Chapter’s accounts, collecting funds, including donations and registration fees, and making payments for the Chapter’s necessary activities, such as the annual luncheon, printing, and other administrative expenses as determined by the Chapter’s Chair and Vice-Chair.
The Treasurer shall also prepare all financial reports for the Chapter Board, maintain a bank account in the name of the Chapter (wherever he/she resides), and be in constant communication with the officers of the Chapter regarding the Chapter’s financial condition.
Pallavi Shukla
Communication Officer
Communication Officer
The Communication Officer will be responsible for organizing and executing all communications from the chapter at the direction of the Chapter Chair. The Communication Officer shall maintain and organize chapter media/membership data and manage chapter social media communications. The Communication Officer assists the Chapter Chair in producing the chapter newsletters and website news posts, as well as any promotional and marketing campaigns as determined by the Chapter Chair.
Pallavi Shukla
Dr. Pallavi Shukla is an Associate 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 examines how migrants and their institutions affect the global strategies of multinational firms. Her work also examines the evolution of international business activity from technological and institutional perspectives. She has published in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of World Business, International Business Review, International Migration Review, and Rutgers Business Review; her papers can be accessed at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Pallavi_Shukla3.
Before entering academia, Professor Shukla worked in the financial services industry for over a decade, first in Mumbai and later in New York City. 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
Liu Wang
VP, Events and Operations
VP, Events and Operations
The Vice President of Events and Operations (VPEO) plays a central role in managing the logistical, operational, and administrative dimensions of the AIB Northeast (AIBNE) Chapter’s activities. Working closely with the Chapter Chair, Vice Chair, and the AIBNE Board, the VPEO ensures the effective organization of the Annual Conference and supports the implementation of other key events and strategic initiatives throughout the year.
The position bridges academic programming with operational execution, ensuring that all AIBNE events uphold the Chapter’s standards of professionalism, inclusivity, and scholarly excellence.
Liu Wang
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) charterholder, a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) charterholder, and a Certified Financial Planner (CFP®). Dr. Wang’s research has appeared in a wide array of high-impact journals, including Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Finance & Accounting, Journal of International Money & Finance, European Financial Management, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Global Finance Journal, and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, among others. She currently serves as Senior Editor for International Journal of Emerging Markets, Associate Editor for Emerging Markets Review and New England Journal of Entrepreneurship, and is on the editorial board of Corporate Governance: An International Review. In addition to being a prolific scholar, Dr. Wang serves on the boards of several professional organizations and is the past president of CFA Society Providence.
Soni Jha
VP, Academic Programs
VP, Academic Programs
The Vice President of Academic Programs (VPAP) plays a central role in shaping the scholarly agenda of the AIB Northeast (AIBNE) Chapter. The position is responsible for designing, organizing, and implementing the academic components of the Chapter’s annual conference and related scholarly initiatives. Working closely with the Chapter Chair, Vice Chair, and the Board, the VPAP ensures that AIBNE maintains high academic standards and continues to foster a vibrant intellectual community.
Soni Jha
Dr. Soni Jha is an Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Purdue University – Fort Wayne. Her research explores the intricate relationship between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the influences of different relationships they have through the different networks they participate in. She also employs quantitative modeling and social network analysis to investigate how climate change and the transition to a low-carbon economy are shifting competitive dynamics and location choices of MNEs in the global auto industry. Her work has been recognized with multiple best paper awards and has appeared in top business journals like the Journal of International Business Studies and the Global Strategy Journal. Soni earned her PhD from Temple University’s Fox School of Business, and her dissertation was a finalist for the Academy of Management’s D’Amore-McKim Best Dissertation Award, runner-up for the Academy of International Business’s Buckley and Casson Best Dissertation Award, and winner of the Academy of Management’s Markets and Management Interest Group’s Best Dissertation Award.
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.
AIBNE 2024 Academic Program Chair
The AIBNE 2024 Program Chair is responsible for the academic aspects of the AIBNE 2024 Annual Conference, including paper review and acceptance, session scheduling, and conference program delivery.
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.
AIBNE 2024 Local Program Chair
The AIBNE 2024 Local Program Chair, as a representative of the host institution, will oversee and support the logistical aspects of the AIBNE 2024 Annual Conference.
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