Yury Zaytsev is a doctoral researcher at the Helmut-Schmidt-University Hamburg, Germany. Before joining to HSU he was working as a consultant at the World Bank and Deloitte. As an expert, Yury Zaytsev was involved in several projects such as the UK DFID-funded 'Sharing Responsibility for Development: Learning from Experience to Achieve Results', the EU-funded 'Transnational Cooperation among NCPs for International Cooperation', 'G8/G20 commitments compliance assessment' with the University of Toronto and 'Growing Business at Emerging Markets' with the CISCO Entrepreneur Institute. He was also a participant of the DSLP Teaching & Learning Visiting Fellowship programme, implemented by the Institute of Development Studies at the Sussex University, Brighton, UK. His expertise covers macroeconomic regulation, international investments, international development assistance and cooperation.