About
Minna Paunova is a doctoral candidate at IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. Specializing in organizational behavior, she is particularly interested in cross-cultural interaction. Her dissertation, under Prof Yih-teen Lee, focuses on leadership emergence in multicultural teams.
Born and raised in Bulgaria, she received her undergraduate education in Psychology and Economics from St Louis University and the University of National and World Economy (Bulgaria), where she graduated first in her class. She published parts of her undergraduate thesis in two leading Bulgarian peer-reviewed journals. Minna Paunova has presented her work at international management conferences including the Academy of Management and the European Academy of Management.
Minna has received a number of awards for academic excellence during her undergraduate and graduate studies. In 2011, she was awarded a fellowship by the Center for Global Leadership at UC Irvine. She has several years of professional experience in international human resource management.
