Authors

Independent expert

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

PhD in Political Science

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

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh