About

Vinika Devasar Rao is Executive Director of the INSEAD Emerging Markets Institute and Gender Initiative, and Director of the Hoffman Global Institute for Business & Society, Asia.

Vinika?s doctorate from the Singapore Management University is in the area of gender diversity in corporate leadership, specifically the impact of male supervisorial support on the self-regulating focus of mid-career female managers. Her other research interests are leadership diversity, millennials & inter-generational influences on the workplace, and emerging markets strategy. She is frequently invited to speak on these areas and has been quoted or published articles in leading business publications including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Economist, The Business Times, South China Morning Post and INSEAD Knowledge.