Authors

Political Analyst

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

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

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

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

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

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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

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

PhD in Economics, Academic Secretary of RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

MGIMO University

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

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

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), Head of the Country Studies Department, Head of the Center for German Studies at the Institute of European Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University