Authors

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Political Scientist

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

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

University of Birmingham