Authors

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Retired Vice-admiral

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

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

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Doctor of Political Science, Ph.D. in History, Deputy Director for Science of the IOS RAS, RIAC Member

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

Dean of the Faculty of International Relations and Foreign Area Studies of the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC member.

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences