Authors

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Expert on Development Assistace

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Humanitarian Affairs Adviser, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Journalist, Sinologist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

RAS Full Member, RIAC member

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University