Authors

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent expert

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Political Scientist

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Independent Analyst

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

University of Birmingham

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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