Bruno S. Sergi is an Instructor on the Economics of Emerging Markets and the Political Economy of Russia and China at Harvard University and an Associate of the Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. He also teaches Political Economy and International Finance at the University of Messina, Italy. Abdul Rahman Jaafar is a Senior Faculty Member in the Department of Business Administration and Entrepreneurship, and a Fellow in the Institute of Innovation and Commercialization, at Universiti Utara Malaysia. He holds more than 25 years’ experience in the corporate and business world.