Authors

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

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

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

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

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

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

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