Authors
Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London
Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member
President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)
PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens
Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States
President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member
Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation
Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science
PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University
Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.
Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge
Political observer
Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences
MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger
Professor of International Politics, Tufts University
MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University
Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)
Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member
Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia
Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Professor at Middle Tennessee State University
PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia
Chairman of the Board of the Foundation for Development and Support of the Valdai Discussion Club
Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center















