Authors

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

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

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

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

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

President of the Russian International Affairs Council

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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