Narae Lee is a PhD candidate in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota and the Strategy and Organization Department at the Singapore Management University (SMU) as an assistant professor in Summer 2022. Her broad research interests lie at the nexus of non-market strategy and international business. Specifically, her current research explains how various institutional levels influence corporate environmental performance in which externalities often span the boundary of those institutions. Prior to joining her PhD program, Narae had an extensive career in promoting the private sector’s engagement in environmental sustainability. Most recently, she worked at the Inter-American Investment Corporation (Inter-American Development Bank Group) where she focused on developing and executing projects to help the small and medium size companies to invest in energy efficiency projects. Narae holds a MSc in Energy and Climate Change from the Johns Hopkin University, a MA in international affairs from Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (Switzerland) and a BA in Business from the Seoul National University (South Korea).