Christopher A. Hartwell is Professor of International Business Policy/Head of the International Management Institute at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) School of Management and Law, Professor of International Management at Kozminski University in Poland, and former President of the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE) in Warsaw. A leading scholar on the evolution of institutions. Professor Hartwell has published in journals such as Journal of World Business, Global Strategy Journal, Explorations in Economic History, and International Business Review. Prof. Hartwell holds a PhD in Economics from the Warsaw School of Economics, a Master’s in Public Policy from Harvard, a BA in Political Science and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and his habilitation from Kozminski. He is also the author of Two Roads Diverge: The Transition Experience of Poland and Ukraine (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and Kazakhstan: Snow Leopard at the Crossroads (Routledge, 2023).