Viacheslav M. Shavshukov Doctor of Economics, Professor in the Higher School of Economics, National Research University. As a professor at St Petersburg State University, for over 23 years, he has published about 150 scientific books, articles, and research papers on the history of economic thought in Russia, theories of economics, global finance, and international banking. The results of the research have been published in 10 countries: Russian, English, Indian, German, Canadian, Chinese, Slovakian, and Finnish scientific journals and collections of scientific works. He has taken part in international conferences in Russia, England, China, Slovakia, and France. He took part in the World Public Forum “The Dialogue of Civilizations” (2006–2012), the Annual Meeting of Governors of the World Bank Group and IMF (1996). He has broad-ranging experience with deals in the international financial markets as a manager in the ICB Bank transactions (ranked in the TOP-500 European banks).