Sandeep Tripathi is the Founding Director of the Forum for Global Studies, New Delhi. He is also a Visiting Professor at the Institute of History and International Relations, Southern Federal University, Russia. He received his PhD in International Relations from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He has delivered keynote addresses at renowned global institutions, including the University of São Paulo, Brazil, Saint Petersburg State University, Russia, Yerevan State University, Armenia, the University of Warsaw, Poland, IDSC, Philippines. He is a regular foreign affairs commentator featured in leading media outlets. Kirill Sablin is a researcher specializing in political and economic aspects of traditional energy development and discrete structural alternatives of the world economy institutional organization. He received his PhD in Economics from Kemerovo State University , Kemerovo. Currently, he is a Visiting Researcher at the Federal Research Centre of Coal and Coal Chemistry, Kemerovo, Russia. His scientific interests include economic development of countries with emerging markets, Schumpeterian innovations, rent-seeking behavior, political connections in resource-abundant economies, and technological sovereignty of extractive industries. His expertise spans over the construction of models of complex economic processes using the theory of fuzzy sets.
