Authors

Independent expert

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Independent Analyst

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Political Science

Political Scientist

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council