Authors

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

MGIMO University

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State