New Frontiers brings together scholars, experts, and practitioners to discuss issues of international and global importance. Produced by the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs at Middlebury College, the podcast tackles a wide range of topics— from big tech, environmental conservation, global security, and political economy to culture, literature, religion, and changing work patterns—that, when examined as a whole, offers a comprehensive survey of the world's most pressing issues.
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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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Is India the next China? with Kevin Carter, EMQQ Global
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Send us a Text Message. 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 innova…
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Adventure capitalist quantitative investing - Asha Mehta, Global Delta Capital
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Send us a Text Message. 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 investm…
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U.S. Militias: Guarding Tradition or Courting Chaos
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America’s modern militia movement emerged in the 1990s, following armed stand-offs with government authorities at Ruby Ridge, Idaho and Waco, Texas. After rising to 370 groups nationwide by 1996, the number of these militias diminished to 68 by 1999—only to surge again when Barak Obama was elected president in 2008. After Donald Trump lost the 2020…
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Global citizenship with Andrew Henderson, Nomad Capitalist
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Send us a Text Message. 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 subsc…
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Nearshoring to Mexico - Jorge Gonzalez Henrichsen, The Nearshore Company
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Send us a Text Message. 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 …
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India Today: One Question, Three Perspectives
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“What’s the one thing about India, that isn’t getting enough attention?” That’s the question we put to three India experts; and not surprisingly, we got three different responses. In August 2023, India celebrated its first successful moon landing. However, while this achievement made headlines around the world, other developments of equal or greate…
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Transforming brands and lives across cultures - Emily Chang, CEO McCann WorldGroup China
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Send us a Text Message. 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 St…
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In June 2023, French police killed 17-year-old Nahal Merzouk during a traffic stop outside of Paris. The killing led to days of street protests, widespread condemnation of racialized police practices, and over 1,300 arrests. This was particularly significant in a country like France, where discussions about race are often avoided or rejected. To ga…
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After the Insurrection: Assessing American Democracy
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On January 6, 2021, supporters of US President Donald Trump—spurred on and energized by the defeated president himself—launched a violent attack on the US capital to stop the peaceful transfer of power to president-elect Joe Biden. What are we to make of the January 6 insurrection? What does it tell us about ourselves as Americans and the state of …
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International nongovernmental organizations (INGO’s) like Amnesty International, Care, Oxfam, or World Vision operate independently of governments around the world. But what do we really know about these organizations and their operations, behavior, effectiveness or limitations? What might they be doing or be unable to do, in a country like Ukraine…
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For months, hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens have taken to the streets to protest government plans to overhaul the judiciary—including plans that would vitiate checks on executive power, allow a simple majority of 61 in the 120-seat Knesset to override almost any ruling by Israel’s Supreme Court, and permit politicians to appoint most of t…
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$8.5B emerging market asset management - Nick Rohatyn, The Rohatyn Group
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Send us a Text Message. 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 mana…
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Making UHNW hospitality thrive through COVID and beyond - Yeshi Phuntso, Àni Private Resorts
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Send us a Text Message. 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 Pri…
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Climate Tech Innovation with Jamil Wyne, founder of Climate Tech Bootcamp
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Send us a Text Message. Jamil Wyne is an INSEAD 18J and advisor, investor, professor and author focusing on climate, entrepreneurship, technology and economic development around the world, including a strong concentration on climate change. Worked with World Bank, IFC, UN, Clean Energy Venture Group, Catalyst Investment Management, Schmidt Futures,…
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Why We Need Environmental Justice Part 2 of 2
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Part 2 of 2 What is meant by such terms as environmental injustice or environmental racism? What is the environmental justice movement and how is it manifest—in the United States and beyond? In this episode of New Frontiers, political scientist Kemi Fuentes-George discusses these topics and what achieving environmental justice for marginalized popu…
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Why We Need Environmental Justice Part 1 of 2
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Part 1 of 2 What is meant by such terms as environmental injustice or environmental racism? What is the environmental justice movement and how is it manifest—in the United States and beyond? In this episode of New Frontiers, political scientist Kemi Fuentes-George discusses these topics and what achieving environmental justice for marginalized popu…
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Mass transit as a last mile logistics solution for SE Asian cities - Onno Pfeiffer, co-founder of Diolko
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Send us a Text Message. Onno Pfeiffer is an INSEAD GEMBA 19 and is the co-founder of Diolko. Diolko's sustainable last mile delivery solution leverages underutilized city infrastructure to improve quality of life for everyone by reducing both greenhouse gas emissions and traffic congestion. Subscribe and follow the INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast o…
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How did the COVID pandemic affect America’s workers—especially those deemed “essential” who often were poorly paid, nonunionized, lacked meaningful benefits, and were required to continue working while most other workers stayed home? How did these workers respond to the health risks they encountered on the job, and how did their struggle for labor …
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Regenerative Agriculture in Pakistan with Taimur Malik of Drawdown Farm
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Send us a Text Message. Taimur Malik, Co-Founder and Ideator of Drawdown Farm joined us to speak about regenerative agriculture's role in addressing the world's polycrises and the amazing results he's had so far on his farm in the Thar Desert of Pakistan. Prior to founding Drawdown Farm, Taimur was an Analyst at Citibank, Chief Executive at Moiz Te…
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VC in India with Brendan Rogers of 2am VC (formerly Wag!'s co-founder)
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Send us a Text Message. Brendan Rogers is the Co-Founder of 2am VC, an early-stage India Fund. Previously, Brendan co-founded Wag! (NASDAQ) PET, the largest pet platform in the US. Before Wag!, Brendan co-founded a social discovery service to meet new people, which grew to over 50 million users in over 10 countries, and was acquired by IAC in 2014.…
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Fair FX transfers for emerging market currencies with Mike Robertson and Adrian Brown, founders of AbbeyCross
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Send us a Text Message. AbbeyCross is a business-to-business FX trading and compliance marketplace for emerging market (EM) currencies. Available to banks and payment providers, it brings deeper EM currency liquidity, previously unavailable price transparency and market data to a fragmented EM payment industry. With AbbeyCross, banking participants…
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From consulting in China to founding a CFO automation startup in Mexico with Javier Cunat, co-founder of Diligo
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Send us a Text Message. Javier Cunat is a TIEMBA 2014 and COO/Director of Diligo, which offers advisory and CFO services for startups in Spain and Mexico. In this episode we explore his 14 years in China and subsequent move to found a startup in Mexico. Subscribe and follow the INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast on Spotify, Apple, or Google.…
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Founder of Asia's largest proptech company, creator of 3 unicorns, Georg Chmiel
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Send us a Text Message. Georg Chmiel is an INSEAD 96D and the Co-Founder / Chair of Juwai-IQI Holdings, the largest proptech group in South East Asia with more than 30,000 sales agents. He is also responsible for creating 3 unicorns. His previous experience includes Executive Chairman of iCarAsia (ASX:ICQ), the number 1 online automotive marketplac…
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Innovating Latin American food and ag sectors with Emilie Abrams of Yield Lab
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Send us a Text Message. Emilie Abrams is an INSEAD 21J and Principal at The Yield Lab Mexico. The Yield Lab is a VC fund formed in 2014 to address a lack of capital and support for early stage agriculture technology companies. It invests in seed stage to growth stage agtech companies, providing international business connections and the resources o…
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Crypto's applications in Emerging Markets with Lloyd Brown, Head of Emerging Markets at Easy Crypto
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Send us a Text Message. Easy Crypto is New Zealand's largest cryptocurrency retailer transacting over $1b in sales, and has now expanded to Australia and South Africa as well. Lloyd Brown is Head of Emerging Markets at Easy Crypto and has decades of business experience on the African continent. Subscribe and follow the INSEAD Emerging Markets Podca…
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Sustainable business opportunities in Southeast Asia with Lisa Genasci (ADM Capital) and Marc Schmidt (BCG)
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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Lisa Genasci and Marc Schmidt joined Vincent Tordo to speak about sustainable business opportunities in Southeast Asia Lisa is a Managing Director - Sustainable Finance with ADM Capital where she leads the firm’s ESG Committee and sits on the Investment Advisory Committee. Marc is a Managing Director and Par…
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Slavery lasted for centuries in China, and yet its particulars are not well known. In this episode of New Frontiers, historian Don Wyatt takes us back to help us understand how the institution thrived during imperial times and the roles it played in Chinese culture. Despite its long pedigree, Chinese slavery during medieval times has failed to attr…
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After six decades of multiparty politics, Turkish democracy has collapsed. Yes, the trappings of democracy are still visible. Elections are held, parliament sits in session, the courts rule, and the elected executive leads. Yet, the substance of democracy moves ever further into the past. How did this happen? Why? And what implications does the unr…
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From starting a clothing store to raising $500M PE funds in Africa with Antoine Delaporte
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Send us a Text Message. Antoine Delaporte is an INSEAD alumnus who after working as a Manager at Bain in London and Paris launched 3 clothing businesses in Madagascar, which he grew to 2500 employees. He then sold the these businesses and entered the world of PE, starting Adenia Partners 20 years ago. He has raised 5 funds for Adenia, the latest be…
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VC in Southeast Asia with Sanjay Zimmerman of White Star Capital
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Send us a Text Message. White Star Capital is a global multi-stage venture capital investment firm with offices in New York, London, Montreal, Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore. They focus on Series A and beyond, helping their portfolio scale internationally. Investments of theirs include Flash Coffee, Dollar Shave Club, Sleek, Freshly, and Po…
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Investing in Bali with Matthieu Chauveau of Tropic Invest
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Send us a Text Message. Matthieu is an INSEAD 19D who has launched 4 businesses in Bali since graduating. We talked about his business plans, fundraising successes and commitments to sustainability and inclusive development. Visit Tropic Invest at tropicinvest.com and join our emerging markets community on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/group…
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According to the US Space Force, only 2,000 of the 22,000 objects that have been tracked circling the Earth are fully operational, functioning satellites. Put differently, roughly 90 percent of the objects that can be tracked circling the globe is junk—space junk, or cosmic garbage. How did it get there, why does it keep accumulating, and how best …
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What Made Russians Skeptics About Democratic Capitalism?
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In this episode, Mark Williams talks with Will Pyle, the Frederick C. Dirks Professor of International Economics at Middlebury College, about recent findings he published in the journal Post-Soviet Affairs. Their discussion explores why Russians of a certain cohort—although liberated from the economic and political constraints of Soviet Communism—a…
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What will healthcare look like post COVID? With Sejal Mistry and Chris L Hardesty
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Send us a Text Message. Sejal Mistry, Regional Director of Southeast Asia at ACCESS Health International , and Chris L. Hardesty, Partner at Pureland Venture and Director of the Health and Life Sciences practice at KPMG joined Suhina Singh for a conversation on what healthcare in emerging markets will look like following the CoVID-19 pandemic.…
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“Asia First was an insistence that Pacific affairs receive as much, if not more attention than European Atlantic relations in the cold war. Its proponents, its supporters, many of whom were very powerful, conservative voices in the Senate and in Congress felt like U.S. foreign policy after World War II was neglecting mainland Asia and therefore imp…
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Should Corporations Govern Global Food Systems?
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In this episode, Molly Anderson, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Food Studies at Middlebury College, joins Mark Williams, director of the Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, to discuss her recent article titled “UN Food Systems Summit 2021: Dismantling Democracy and Resetting Corporate Control of Food Systems”. At issue is whether multinational co…
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Emerging Market Search Funds with Andrew Locke, co-founder of Ambit Partners
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Send us a Text Message. Ambit Partners is a search fund investor that enabling entrepreneurship through acquisition across traditional and developing markets, including Africa, South America and Asia. In this episode, Ambit co-founder and Partner, Andrew Locke, discusses the impact and business potential for search funds in emerging markets and wha…
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Building 1 million businesses by 2030 - Vikram Bharati, founder of Draper Startup House for Entrepreneurs
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Send us a Text Message. Vikram Bharati is the founder of the Draper Startup House, which is on a mission to invest in ONE MILLION entrepreneurs by the end of 2030. Draper Startup Houses are business innovation hubs with a backpacking environment and access to venture capital for global entrepreneurs. Their current locations include Singapore, Banga…
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Creating a unicorn by serving rural APAC with satellite internet- Christian Patouraux, founder of Kacific
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Send us a Text Message. Christian Patouraux, the CEO and founder of Kacific, a satellite internet startup that has raised $300M+ and serves some of the most remote markets in emerging APAC such as Bhutan, Papua New Guinea and Tuvalu, joined us for our first episode. Visit Kacific at kacific.com and join our emerging markets community on LinkedIn at…
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