INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast
The INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast features conversations with entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and leaders building the future of emerging markets. Hosted by Nick Lall, the show explores their personal journeys, the countries and industries they know best, and the opportunities, challenges, and transformations shaping Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and other high-growth markets.
INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast
Latest Episodes
Doing Business in Saudi Arabia: 17 Years of Lessons | Victor Barrero, Manara
In 2009, in the middle of the financial crisis, Victor Barrero took a summer internship at an airline in Riyadh over a consulting offer in Dubai. Everyone at INSEAD asked him why. Seventeen years later, he has built and scaled businesses across...
Building the Financial Rails Between Africa and Its Diaspora - Ope Sonusi, Bluum Finance
Ope Sonusi is the founder of Bluum Finance, a platform building the infrastructure layer that allows fintechs to offer investing and wealth management products across Africa and its global diaspora. In this conversation, Ope shares ...
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From Blank Canvas to 38 Million Visitors: Mohamed Al Zaabi on Building Yas Island
Mohamed Al Zaabi is the Group CEO of Miral Group, the force behind one of the world’s most dramatic tourism transformations - turning an artificial island in Abu Dhabi into a global destination drawing tens of millions of visitors. ...
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From US Dominance to Global Dispersion: Nick Rohatyn on the New EM Cycle
Nick Rohatyn is the founder and CEO of The Rohatyn Group, and one of the architects of emerging markets as a modern asset class. Having built JP Morgan’s emerging markets business from an eight-person desk into a 600-person global platform, Nic...
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Why Ukraine May Be the Most Mispriced Market in the World with Bruce Talley
Bruce Talley is an American entrepreneur and frontier market strategist who has spent decades operating in opaque, rapidly changing environments from Russia’s Black Sea coast to Brazil and now Ukraine. He built the largest destination services ...
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