Authors

Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

MGIMO University

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

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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

Political Analyst

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

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

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

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

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

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

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