Authors

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

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

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

RIAC President (2011–2026), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004), Russian Academy of Sciences Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University