Authors

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

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

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University