Authors

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Humanitarian Affairs Adviser, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

President of the IMEMO, RAS Full Member, Chairman of the RIAC Scientific Council, RIAC Member.

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

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

Ph.D., retired transdisciplinary consultant who writes on technology, power, global risks and future systems

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Expert at the ASEAN Center, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia

Independent Analyst

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

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

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

PhD in Political Science

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Independent Expert

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

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

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC