Global Trends, Dynamics, and Imperatives for Strategic Development in Business Education in an Age of Disruption

Anatoly Zhuplev is a professor of international business and entrepreneurship at Loyola Marymount University (Los Angeles, California) and former editor-in-chief at the Journal of East West Business (2011-2013). He taught for ten years at the Moscow Management Institute, and subsequently at the Advanced Training Institute of the State Committee for Printing and Publishing in Moscow; in Bonn, Germany in 1994, 1998, 2009; in Warsaw, Poland (as a Fulbright scholar) in 2005; in Paris, France in 2004-2007, and at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts in 1989-1990. His books, book chapters, and articles on International Management, International Entrepreneurship, International Business, European Energy Security and Corporate Governance (around 100 overall) have been published in the U.S., Canada, Western Europe, Russia, and the former USSR. He received his PhD from the Moscow Management Institute, Russia, in 1981, and his BS from the Moscow Engineer-Economics Institute in 1974.

Robert Koepp is a lecturer at the College of Business Administration at Loyola Marymount University and the founder and principal of Los Angeles-based Geoeconomix, an independent consultancy focused on the intersecting economics of global markets, technology, and government policy. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Hong Kong-based fintech company, FinFabrik, and on the Advisory Council of the Center on AI Technology for Humankind (AITH) at National University of Singapore. He has also served as a lecturer and adjunct professor at California State University Long Beach, Pepperdine University, and the University of Southern California. Throughout a long-running global management career, Rob most recently served as director and the chief economist of the Corporate Network in Hong Kong for The Economist Group, parent company of the weekly publication, The Economist. His other executive positions include senior roles in international media, finance, technology and energy. He has also worked extensively in economic research involving development policy, technology clustering, and capital markets. Rob has previously authored two full-length books, Betting on China: Chinese Stocks, American Stock Markets, and the Wagers on a New Dynamic in Global Capitalism and Clusters of Creativity: Enduring Lessons on Innovation and Entrepreneurship from Silicon Valley and Europe’s Silicon Fen. He was also the English editor and translator of a best-selling Japanese manga biography on George Soros. He is contributing the capstone chapter, “Locating the Digital Silk Road in the Belt and Road Initiative,” to the Adelphi series book, China’s Digital Expansion: The Digital Silk Road, published by The International Institute of Strategic Studies forthcoming in Spring 2021.