Authors

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

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

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Representative, Resource Agribusiness Group

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

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

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

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