Teresa da Silva Lopes

Teresa da Silva Lopes is The Thomas McCraw Fellow in US Business History. She is Professor of International Business and Business History at the Management School, University of York, Director of the Centre for the Evolution of Global Business and Institutions (CEGBI), and Head of the Marketing Group. She is the President of the Association of Business Historians (ABH), a member of the Council of the European Business History Association (EBHA), a member of the Hagley Book Prize Committee, and a member of the Nominating Committee at the Business History Conference (BHC). She received her PhD from the University of Reading and was a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford. She also has an MPhil, MBA and Licenciatura in Business and Management from Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Professor da Silva Lopes has previously been a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley, Columbia University, and École Polytechnique in Paris.

Professor da Silva Lopes research interests focus on the evolution of global business. She has written on the impact of brands and reputation in the evolution of multinational firms and global industries; on multinational strategies in high risk environments; and on the role of expatriate entrepreneurship in developing countries. In her recent work she has drawn on historical trademark data to help inform research on the impact of multinational business on economic development. Her publications include Global Brands: The Evolution of Multinationals in Alcoholic Beverages (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Trademarks, Brands and Competitiveness, edited with Paul Duguid (Routledge, 2010); Internationalisation and Concentration in Port Wine (GEHVID/ICEP, 1999).

She has published several books and international journals on topics such as brands, trademarks and intellectual property, marketing knowledge, entrepreneurship and innovation, globalisation, growth and survival of multinational firms and evolution of industries.