Dr. Dan Steinbock is an internationally-renowned expert on the multipolar world economy and the founder of the global consultancy Difference Group Ltd. He has served in the India China America Institute (US), the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies (China), and the EU Center (Singapore) and he has cooperated with several other think-tanks around the world. He has lectured around the world and consulted for multinational companies, multilateral development banks, government agencies, intergovernmental organizations like the OECD, and regional trading blocs, such as the EU.