Authors

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

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

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

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

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Independent Analyst

MGIMO University