Dr. Alexander Mirtchev

In an interview with Mergermarket.com, Dr. Alexander Mirtchev, founder and president of Krull Corporation, assesses the diverse recovery prospects for rapidly developing economies and emerging markets, noting that such recovery would be prolonged and uneven, much akin to the Hollywood-style multiple DVD endings for different regions. He stresses that "rapidly developing and emerging market economies are under the same pressure as the developed economies and each will face diverse recovery prospects, based on economic characteristics that vary between each country. All rapidly developing economies are looking for a way out of the recession -- one that would boost their regional and international standing, in the context of global cooperation and in directions they perceive as strategic." The extent to which the fate of these markets is tied to the development of the global economy effectively demonstrates that they are neither "decoupled," nor a "single c

  Dr. Alexander Mirtchev is Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), London, est. 1831, and Executive Chairman RUSI International.    He serves as Board Director and Member of the Executive Committee of the Atlantic Council of the United States. In his distinguished academic career, he has also served in a number of positions, including as Senior Fellow at the Russian and Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Adjunct Professor, and awarded a Doctor Emeritus degree by the University of Foreign Trade and Finance, Kyiv, Ukraine.    He obtained his LL.M. degree in International and Comparative Law at the National Law Center of the George Washington University, Washington, DC, and Ph.D. from the St. Kliment Ohridski University and studied economics and finance at the London School of Economics, Boston University and the Harvard Business School. Dr. Mirtchev is also president of Krull Corp., US, and has served as Chairman and Dir