Authors

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science

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

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

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

PhD in Economics

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Consultant, PIR Center

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Independent Analyst

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum