Authors

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

Independent expert

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Political Scientist

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

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

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

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