Russell Napier is an Edinburgh-based consultant who writes about issues impacting the global equity markets. Previously a strategist for CLSA Asia Pacific Markets, where he contributed to the development and scope of CLSA's equity research, he is now an independent strategist at and co-founder of ERIC, an online platform for the sale of high-quality individually priced investment research. He is the author of "The Solid Ground," a global macro report originally published by CLSA and now published independently. Russell is a director of the Scottish Investment Trust and the Mid Wynd International Investment Trust, and his book Anatomy of a Bear: Learning from Wall Street's Four Great Bottoms has been published to critical and commercial acclaim. In 1999 Russell created a course for finance professionals at the Edinburgh Business School called A Practical History of Financial Markets, which he continues to run.