Miguel M. TorresMiguel Matos Torres , PhD in Economics, is a Lecturer in International Business at Kent Business School (KBS). His career includes consulting services to the European Commission and World Bank, applied research and teaching roles at Leeds, Milano, Aviro, KU Leuven, and Uppsala universities, with appointments at the University Federal of Goiás, IF Goiano, and the University Catolica of Portugal. He has held multiple visiting professorships and is an INSOL International and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. He completed executive programs at Harvard, Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and University College London (UK). His research focuses on the intersection of international business, public policy and strategic management, focusing on multinational management models, corporate political risk, and negotiation strategies, particularly emphasising the complexities of cross-border restructuring and foreign direct investment drivers using cross-sectional, time-series, and panel data approaches. His work has been published in the International Business Review, Journal of Business Ethics, Multinational Business Review, Journal of Economic Methodology, INSOL International Insolvency Review, PLOS One, and AIB Insights. He authored the books Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Inequality, and Multinational Corporations (Springer, 2025) and Dead Firms: Causes and Effects of Cross-Border Corporate Insolvency (Emerald, 2017). Read More Read Less