Authors

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

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

PhD in Economics

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Independent expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA