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Marleen Dieleman

Marleen Dieleman holds the Peter Lorange Chair in Family Business. She is an expert on the challenges faced by emerging market enterprises in their strategic trajectories. Her research focuses on the governance, strategy, internationalization, innovation, and transformation of business families in emerging markets, and also on emerging market state-owned enterprises and the interaction between these companies and their governments. At IMD, she directs the Future-Proofing your Business Family program and is co-director of the Orchestrating Winning Performance Program. 

Latest publications

The Tolaram family enterprise on building and sustaining a legacy over 75 years

12 February 2025 • by Marleen Dieleman in Family business • 8 min read

Tolaram, the Singapore-headquartered family business, has global interests in logistics, consumer goods, and technology. Family members Mohan Vaswani and Sajen Aswani discuss the company’s values-based system of meritocracy, the family’s move to...

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