Authors

Independent journalist

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

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Expert on Development Assistace

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent Expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

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

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

PIR Center Director

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics