Maria Luiza Carvalho de Aguillar Pinho

Maria Luiza C.A. Pinho has been a Research Associate for NUPIN ? Center for International Business Research at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro since 2013. Previously, she was an assistant professor of different disciplines in Marketing and Research Methods at the Business, Accounting and Communication?s department at IBMEC-RJ, where she mentored several undergraduate students with their final dissertation. Her research spans a range of topics in business and research methods with a special focus on small business enterprises and international entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Previously, she worked for the Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion Agency where she worked at the Qualification Export Program supporting SMEs to organize their export activities. The agency organizes several initiatives aiming to promote Brazilian exports abroad.Additionally, Maria Luiza brings with her fifteen years? experience as an executive for a French multinational company where she occupied several positions at the training, communication, marketing and sales departments, either nationally or internationally leading teams and the development and implementation of innovative products, services and process worldwide. Maria Luiza received her Bachelor in Psychology. Additionally, she holds an MsC in Business Administration from the Graduate Business School of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro where she went on an exchange program with NEOMA Business School (ESC-Rouen). She is a PhD Candidate in International Business at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2014, she received the ?Best paper? award at the ESPM Conference/Symposium with the paper ?Bromélia Filminhos and the International Adventures of Lottie Dottie Chicken?, which was later published. She has been a productive academic with book chapters, case studies and papers published nationally and internationally. She is member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business (AIB), where she supported the organization of a panel at the AIB-LAT Conference in 2016.