High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dr. Vladimir Kvint is an economist and strategist, the President of the International Academy of Emerging Markets, and an Adjunct Professor (since 2005) at La Salle University`s School of Business (Pennsylvania, USA). In parallel, since 2007, he has been the Chair of the Department of Financial Strategy at the Moscow School of Economics of the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University. He is a Foreign Member (ad vitum) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2010 Vladimir L. Kvint, has been elected as a Fellow of The World Academy of Art and Science. In addition to his professorship, he is currently and has been a consultant to governments of several countries. In 2009 -2012 he was the Global Head of Emerging Markets at one of the largest in the world and oldest architectural and planning company RMJM. Dr. Kvint’s work has appeared in such well-known publications as 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, he is a member of the Editorial Boards of several professional publications.