Authors

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

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

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Dean of the School of Financial Economics at MGIMO University

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

RIAC member

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member