German-born, and educated in Frankfurt, Prague and Cambridge, Oliver Kratz completed a PhD specializing in international finance, market segmentation and pre-emerging equity markets. Dr Kratz currently works as an international equity analyst at a major Wall Street firm in New York. His responsibilities encompass Eastern European, Mediterranean, Middle Eastern and African equity markets as well as the global chemicals, metals, mining, steel and global semiconductor sectors. Dr Kratz has been quoted on issues pertaining to international banking and financial markets in the Frankfurter Allgemein...