Authors

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

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

Corresponding member, RAS, Dr. of Economics, Professor,
Dean of the Faculty for International Energy Business, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

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

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Lecturer, Department of Asian and African Studies, MGIMO University, Research Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

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