The 10 Rules of Successful Nations

Ruchir Sharma

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[3] 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 (W. W. Norton & Company, March 2020), The Rise and Fall of Nations: Forces of Change in a Post-Crisis World (Norton/Allen Lane, June 2016) and Breakout Nations (Norton/Allen Lane, April 2012). Sharma has told interviewers he spent his early school years in Mumbai, Delhi, and Singapore. He did his undergraduate studies at the Shri Ram College of Commerce in New Delhi, and afterward joined a securities trading company, and in 1991 he launched a column called For Ex, first for The Observer, later for The Economic Times of India. His writings attracted the attention of Morgan Stanley, which hired him in its Mumbai office in 1996. In 2002 he moved to the New York office, which remains his base today.[4] In 2003 he became cohead of the emerging markets team at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. In 2006 he became head of the team