Vladimir Kvint

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. From 2009 to 2012 he was the Global Head of Emerging Markets at one of the largest in the world and oldest architectural and planning company RMJM. 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, he is a member of the Editorial Boards of several professional publications.

Vladimir Kvint was born in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia into a family of engineers. He studied in Railroad elementary and junior high school. Then he moved to Norilsk, the most northern city in the world, located 1,000 miles above the Arctic Circle. He began his 14-year career in the non-ferrous metals industry at the age of 14 as a construction and metal worker. Most of Kvint’s education was completed in parallel with his professional and athletic activities ( boxing). By the age of 27 Kvint had established himself as the Chief Economist and Vice Chairman of a major Russian high-tech company in addition to successfully earning his Ph.D. in Economics ( at age of 26 ) and being well educated in the fields of Mining-Electrical Engineering and Law.

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