Professor Dr. Andrey Medvedev worked at the International Management Institute, St. Petersburg (IMISP) and Graduate School of Management (GSOM), St. Petersburg University, where he taught corporate strategy and international management as well as corporate finance in Executive MBA, Master of Sciences (including CEMS) and executive education programmes for numerous multinational firms. He has taken part in EMBA programmes for numerous business schools in Germany, France, Norway, Spain, the UK and the US. He is an author of several books on International Management published in Russia, Finland and Germany. He was recognised as the winner of several case study writing contests. He was an academic leader in several EU projects in Russia on such topics as Innovation Management in SMEs and ICT in Transition Economies.