Authors

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

Political Scientist

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

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

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Independent Analyst

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

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

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)