Ruchir Sharma is an Indian investor and fund manager who has written widely on global economics and politics. As chief global strategist and head of the Emerging Markets Equity team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, he manages $20 billion in assets under management. A longtime columnist for newspapers and magazines around the world, Sharma is the author of The 10 Rules of Successful Nations, The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in a Post-Crisis World and Breakout Nations.