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


















