Authors

President, Synergia Foundation

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Junior Research Fellow, Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

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

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

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

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University