Authors

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D., retired transdisciplinary consultant who writes on technology, power, global risks and future systems

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Independent expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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