Authors

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Candidate of Political Sciences, Founder and Director of the National Energy Security Fund, First Vice-Rector for External Communications of the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

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

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

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

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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)

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS