INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast

About 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.

Publisher

INSEAD Emerging Markets Podcast by Nick Lall

Category

business · business · business

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

10 Aug 2021

Latest episode

24 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

42 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   24 Aug 2026

   Doing Business in Saudi Arabia: 17 Years of Lessons | Victor Barrero, Manara

   Send us Fan Mail 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 Saudi Arabia, the US, Canada, Mexico and Singapore, returned to launch one of the largest residential platforms for international professionals in the Kingdom, and now runs his own company in Riyadh helping executives and businesses re...

2. 

   20 Apr 2026

   Building the Financial Rails Between Africa and Its Diaspora - Ope Sonusi, Bluum Finance

   Send us Fan Mail 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 how his own experience as an immigrant led him to a missing piece in fintech: the ability to build wealth across borders. We also explore why investing infrastructure in emerging markets is so complex, and what it will take to unlock capital ...

3. 

   24 Feb 2026

   From Blank Canvas to 38 Million Visitors: Mohamed Al Zaabi on Building Yas Island

   Send a text 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. Under his leadership since the mid-2010s, Miral has overseen the creation, operation and evolution of immersive attractions, resorts, sports venues and digital experiences that have re-imagined what a destination can be in the 21st century. Al Zaa...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

2,996

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 53 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

51

Social presence

0

YouTube

68

Engagement

68

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