Dr. Alina Kudina is an Assistant Professor of International Business at the Warwick Business School and an Associate of the U.K.'s Advanced Institute of Management Research. She did her PhD at Saϊd Business School, University of Oxford, and was a Lecturer at University College London before coming to Warwick. Before that she was involved with the Foreign Investment Advisory Service (the International Finance Corporation, Washington, DC) analysing the impediments to business conduct and FDI in Russia. Alina has collaborated with CASE from 1998 conducting economic research and policy analysis for the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine. Her main areas of professional interest are: macroeconomics, economic growth, foreign direct investments and economics of multinational enterprises.