Aarti Ramaswami is a professor in the Department of Management at ESSEC Business School, and director of the ESSEC Global MBA Programme in France and Singapore. Her expertise focuses on systems used to identify, select, and develop managerial and executive talent. She has a particular interest in expatriation, cross-cultural management, and career success strategies. Her research has appeared in several international peer-reviewed journals. She teaches courses on Leadership across Cultures, People Management, International Human Resource Management, Managerial Coaching, and Mentoring, to name a few, in Master’s, MBA, and Executive Education programmes. She received her PhD in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University Bloomington. Aarti has a highly international profile, having lived and worked in India, the US, France, the UAE, and now in Singapore. ​