Authors

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Political Analyst

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Institute of Oriental Studies

MGIMO University

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

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

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member

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

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association