Authors

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

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

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Head of the Department of Central and Eastern Europe Studies, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at MGIMO University; Professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH)

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

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 Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Politics American University of Paris

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Political Analyst

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)