Vladimir Kvint is an economist and strategist, and President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets. In parallel, since 2007, he has been the Chair of the Department of Financial Strategy at the Moscow School of Economics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. Kvint also is a Head of the Center for Strategic Studies at Institute of Complex Systems Mathematical Research of this University. In 2019-2021 Dr. Kvint is a Visiting Professor at Department of Economics of Shanghai University. He is a foreign member (ad vitum) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2010 Kvint was elected as a Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science. He is a U.S. Fulbright Scholar and has been a professor at Fordham, New York University, and American University and Adjunct Professor of La Salle University as well as Babson College. In 2018 Kvint was awarded by Lomonosov Moscow State University with the Annual Lomonosov Prize of Highest Degree for his "Studies of Theory of Strategy and Methodology of Strategizing". In addition to his professorship, he is currently and has been a consultant to governments of several countries. He was a consultant at architectural and planning company RMJM, and was Director for Emerging Markets at Arthur Andersen in NYC. Kvint's work appeared in The New York Times and Harvard Business Review, among others. He has been a contributor to Forbes magazine in which he published his most profound forecast on February 5, 1990, predicting the exact year - 1991 - of the fall of the Soviet Union. In addition, Kvint is a member of the Editorial Boards of several professional publications.