Tomas Casas-Klett is permanent faculty at the University of St.Gallen. He specializes in International Business, particularly on how to do business in Asia. He is the co-editor of both the annual Elite Quality Index (EQx) report on the sustainable value creation of nations and the annual Value Creation Ratings (VCr) report on the sustainable value creation of firms, as well as the author of the forthcoming book, The Elite Theory of Economic Development. Martin Nerlinger is Assistant Professor at the University of St.Gallen's School of Finance (SoF), Swiss Institute of Banking and Finance (SBF-HSG) and a faculty member of the Swiss Finance Institute (SFI). He holds two BSc degrees in economics and business administration, an MSc in business administration, as well as a PhD in finance, all from the University of Augsburg, Germany.