Authors

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

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America