INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast

Feb 05 2025 27 ep. 38 mins 7
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Conversations with leading emerging markets movers and shakers on their personal journeys and insights into the countries in which they operate. 

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Sustainable forestry in Africa - Darren Lapp, New Forests Company

Feb 05 2025 30 mins  
Send us a text In this episode, we were joined by Darren Lapp, CEO of the New Forests Company, a sustainable forestry and timber products business operating in Uganda and Tanzania. Darren shares his journey from growing up in a forestry town in Canada to leading a major forestry enterprise in sub-Saharan Africa. We discuss: Darren’s career path – how he transitioned from biolog

Athletic + career excellence and VC in the Balkans - Pedja Predin, Fifth Quarter Ventures

Nov 07 2024 28 mins  
Send us a text Pedja is an INSEAD 14J and GP at Fifth Quarter Ventures, the first VC firm solely focused on Southeastern Europe. Pedja was on the Serbian National Water Polo team, and post-INSEAD scaled Gelato (a print-on-demand startup) into a unicorn my leading its expansion into emerging markets like India, China, and Russia. In this episode we discuss the types of founders Pedj

Building Latin America's largest fintech - Livia Chanes, CEO Nubank Brazil

Nov 01 2024 29 mins  
Send us a text Nubank (NYSE: NU) is Latin America's largest fintech company and the world's largest neobank with over 100 million users and a valuation of over $70 billion. Livia is an INSEAD 09D and prior to Nubank directed tech and business analytics at Itau Unibanco (Latin America's largest bank) and was a Partner at McKinsey.

Is India the next China? with Kevin Carter, EMQQ Global

Aug 28 2024 58 mins  
Send us a text Kevin Carter, founder and chief investment officer of EMQQ Global, joined us to disucss his journey in the investment world, initiated by his transformative reading of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street," which led to him working alongside economist Burton Malkiel of Princeton University in creating multiple stock market innovations like fractional investing and persona

Adventure capitalist quantitative investing - Asha Mehta, Global Delta Capital

Jun 05 2024 47 mins  
Send us a text In this episode of the INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast, we speak with Asha Mehta, Managing Partner at Global Delta Capital, about her impactful career in finance, focusing on emerging and frontier markets through a lens of sustainability and responsible investing. Asha founded Global Delta Capital after working as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and Lead Portfo

Global citizenship with Andrew Henderson, Nomad Capitalist

Apr 18 2024 47 mins  
Send us a text Andrew Henderson is the Founder and CEO of Nomad Capitalist, the world's leading offshore consulting firm dedicated to helping clients make informed decisions on the best countries to invest, start a business and live in. Andrew has helped over 2,000 UHNW individuals go offshore and his YouTube channel has over 750,000 subscribers. Nomad Capitalist Live, Nomad Capita

Nearshoring to Mexico - Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen, The Nearshore Company

Mar 28 2024 41 mins  
Send us a text In this episode, Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen joins us to share his unique path from investment banking and an MBA at NYU Stern to acquiring and then running company at the forefront of the nearshoring movement. He dives deep into both the geopolitical and macroeconomic ramifications of nearshoring and the nitty gritty of what it takes to search for, buy, and then run a

Transforming brands and lives across cultures - Emily Chang, CEO McCann WorldGroup China

Feb 21 2024 37 mins  
Send us a text In this episode of the INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast, we were joined by Emily Chang, a powerhouse in the world of international marketing and business strategy. Currently CEO of VML West (and CEO of McCann Worldgroup in China at the time of recording), Emily's storied career spans influential roles at global giants like Starbucks, Apple, and Procter & Gamble, c

$8.5B emerging market asset management - Nick Rohatyn, The Rohatyn Group

Jun 04 2023 36 mins  
Send us a text Nicolas Rohatyn serves as Chief Executive Officer of The Rohatyn Group. TRG is a team of 190+ emerging market specialists in 18 countries dedicated to pursuing investment opportunities in these economies by focusing on areas of structural inefficiency and special opportunity. The firm has over $8 billion in assets under management and splits its investments between p

Making UHNW hospitality thrive through COVID and beyond - Yeshi Phuntso, Àni Private Resorts

Apr 25 2023 38 mins  
Send us a text In this episode, we spoke with Yeshi Phuntso, CEO of Àni Private Resorts about how his strategic focus on community engagement and employee empowerment has created a thriving brand. Àni is the world’s first private resort collection offering exclusive retreats in the most beautiful and far-flung corners of the earth, ÀNI Private Resorts draws its name from the S