Professor Kiryl Rudy has had a distinguished career spanning government service, private sector, and academia. He holds a doctorate in economics at Belarusian State Economic University. Prior to that, he was a Fulbright scholar at Indiana University in the United States. Prof. Rudy has written several books on state capitalism, finance, cultural economics and cooperation with China. He has served as Belarus' Ambassador to China, as well as the economic advisor to the President of Belarus and Belarus' commercial counsellor at the Embassy of Belarus to China. In addition to government service, Prof. Rudy has held board positions at the Belarusian Development Bank, a Russian crypto-platform, software engineering company, financial outsourcing company and was a top manager at Chinese telecommunication giant Huawei's office in Belarus. Currently Dr.Rudy is Chief Government Relations Officer at international software company Andersen Lab.