Joseph Battat spent 20 years with the World Bank Group addressing global challenges, including as senior consultant and head of the Foreign Investment Advisory Service, a unit of the bank that advises governments about how to improve the business environments in their countries. He worked on the development of China’s poorest regions, and he became a co-dean of the first MBA program in the People’s Republic of China, developing its curricula and recruiting its expatriate faculty. Earlier, he taught at Indiana University’s graduate business school and worked with the philanthropist George Soros designing and establishing a school of Western-style management in Budapest, the first of its kind in Soviet Bloc Eastern Europe. He is currently a senior lecturer of global economics and management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.