'Leadership Luminaries' provides an invaluable reference point to understand how cultural differences impact upon leadership styles and practices. This new issue of our ongoing global leadership series presents country-specific analyses of culturally endorsed leadership practices and styles in the countries: Australia, Brazil, Canada, Curaçao, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Emirates, Germany, Gibraltar, Great Britain, India, Nepal, Portugal, Romania and Ukraine. This publication contains contributions from around 140 researchers from 38 countries who participated in the Cross-Cultural & Global Business Skills electives offered by the Part-time Academy of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.