Authors

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Doctor of Political Science; Professor at the Russian Academy of Sciences; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club;Professor, MGIMO University

Institute of Oriental Studies

Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Political Analyst

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform