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Andris Strazds

Andris Strazds is a senior economist at Nordea Bank Finland Plc. Previously, he worked as a manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers leading market studies, strategic advisory, valuation and due diligence assignments for corporate and public sector clients in Central and Eastern Europe.

For more than ten years now, Andris has also been a part-time faculty member at the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he has taught Managerial Economics, Business Valuation and Strategy, International Finance and Macroeconomics in the undergraduate, Executive MBA and various non-degree executive education programs. From December 2008 to July 2011, Andris was a member of the Commission of Strategic Analysis Under the Auspices of the President of Latvia.

He has an MSc degree in International Economics and Business from the Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Besides his native Latvian, Andris is fluent in English, German and Russian, has intermediate level knowledge of French and is a passionate traveller. His favourite authors are Paulo Coelho and Haruki Murakami, and he is a fan of Shakira.

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Edwin G. Dolan is an economist and educator with a Ph.D. from Yale University. Early in his career, he was a member of the economics faculty at Dartmouth College, the University of Chicago, and George Mason University. From 1990 to 2001, he taught in Moscow, Russia, where he and his wife founded the American Institute of Business and Economics (AIBEc), an independent, not-for-profit MBA program. Since 2001, he has taught at several universities in Europe, including Central European University in Budapest, the University of Economics in Prague, and the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, where he has an ongoing annual visiting appointment. During breaks in his teaching career, he worked in Washington, D.C. as an economist for the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice and as a regulatory analyst for the Interstate Commerce Commission, and later served a stint in Almaty as an adviser to the National Bank of Kazakhstan. When not lecturing abroad, he makes his home in San Juan Islands, Washington.

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