Authors

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

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

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Independent Expert

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Senior Research Fellow of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Political observer

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Postgraduate student, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Society of Orientalists of Russia, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies