Prof. (Dr). Shalendra D. Sharma is a Distinguished Fellow (Honorary) at Forum for Global Studies, New Delhi.  Prof. Sharma is an interim Head and Lee Sahu Kee Foundation Chair Professor of Political Science, Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He has been a former Professor of Politics at the University of San Francisco, USA. Prof. Sharma is the author of: Global Financial Contagion: Building a Resilient World Economy after the Subprime Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2013). Sharma was the recipient of USF’s University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award for 1996–97 and the University-wide Distinguished Research Award for 2002–03. He also consults for the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.