Bruno S. Sergi, PhD, teaches “Economic Policy” and “International Political Economy” at the University of Messina and is an Instructor of “The Economics of Emerging Markets: Asia and Eastern Europe” and “Political Economy of Russia and China” at Harvard. Dr. Sergi serves as Center Associate of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. At the University of Messina, he is also Chairman of the Ph.D. programme in Economic Sciences and Quantitative Methods (2011-2016). Since 2009 he has coached two networks of trade-union economic experts: the SEE TU Economic Experts’ Network and the NIS TU Economic Experts’ Network, both of which are under the framework of the Pan-European Regional Council of the International Trade Union Confederation. He has taught and done research at New York University, the IMF, CERC-University of Melbourne, the University of Latvia, Prague International Business School, City University (Slovakia), ISM University of Management and Economics (Lithuania), Warsaw School of Economics, University “Aleksandër Moisiu” – Fastip (Albania), several national central banks in Europe, and the European Trade Union Institute in Brussels. He has been an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne (2010- 2011).