Dr. Kenneth Charman is a professor in business strategy at CamEd Business School, where he has been emplyed full-time since 2018. Born and raised in London, and having completed a degree in economics at the University of Nottingham in the UK, he started his career in the oil sector and then in systems consulting in London. After completing an MBA and a PhD at London Business School, he focused his career on economic development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where he led major national and regional development projects for the European Union and other international donors, including long-term assignments in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, and Belarus, and led a large-scale EU development project covering a range of industries and the EU Partnership in Syria in the early 2000s. He also managed a multi-project porfolio as a development specialist in the European Commission in Brussels. He was employed as a teaching and research professor in Kazakhstan from 2012-18, and is a co-founder of the Harvard Business School Microeconomics of Competitiveness Asian Chapter, which he still heads. He has also undertaken many private sector assignments, and now focuses on strategy and organizational development at the national, regional, sector and firm level. Dr. Charman was appointed as Visiting Research Fellow at the Royal Institution of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 2012.”