Authors

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

Independent journalist and researcher

Retired Vice-admiral

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

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

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

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