Authors

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert in the Foreign Policy and Security division at the Center for Strategic Research

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

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Technical Sciences, Founder, Aigents, Architect, SingularityNET

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Doctor of law, Professor, Director of the International Cooperation Center of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, IMEMO RAS

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

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D., retired transdisciplinary consultant who writes on technology, power, global risks and future systems

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

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

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund