Dr. Kenneth Charman is a professor in business strategy at CamEd Business School. He started his career in the oil sector and then in systems consulting in London, and after completing his MBA in 1991, he focused on economic development in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where he led major development projects for the European Union and other international donors, including mutli-million Euro technical assistance programmes in national and regional development of former centrally-planned regions, regulatory implementation and economic analysis, and sector specific development in several trade and industrial sectors, including WTO accession and EU Partnership Agreements. He has undertaken long term assignments in Belarus, Syria, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyz Republic, and was employed as a development specialist in the European Commission in Brussels. He was employed as a teaching and research professor in Kazakhstan 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 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.