Dr. Paul Fischer is an economist, who studied international business, economics, international relations, and law at the universities of Munich LMU, Paris Sorbonne, and Maastricht. He holds a Ph.D. from the Moscow Finance Academy and a D.Litt. (Postdoc) from the Moscow Higher School of Economics. His earlier book Foreign Direct Investment in Russia: A Strategy for Industrial Recovery was published in English (Macmillan, 2000) and Russian (1999). The sequel, Increasing FDI into Russia: Five Steps towards Success (2004), was published in Russian. The concepts in these books were used by authorities in Russia and other emerging markets for their FDI policies. Dr. Fischer was senior advisor with the UN, the European Commission, and the German government in Russia and China. He founded the advisory firm EMAS (www.emas-eurasia.com) in Munich; it has offices in Dalian, Pune, and Moscow. A polyglot, he speaks German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Russian fluently, and can communicate in Chinese.