Evgeny Kanaev, Doctor of Sciences, Deputy Head of the School of International Regional Studies; Professor of the Faculty of World Econ-omy and World Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Vice-President for Science of the Association of the South Pacif-ic Region Researchers, Russia, Moscow.

Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, Head of the Center for South Pacific Studies of the Center for Southeast Asia, Australia and Oceania, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association of the South Pacific Region Researchers, founder and director of the Mi-klouho-Maclay Foundation, Russia, St. Petersburg.

Ekaterina Astafieva, PhD in History, Senior Researcher, Center for South-east Asia, Australia and Oceania, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Executive Director of the Association of the South Pa-cific Region Researchers, Russia, Moscow.

Artyom Garin, Research Assistant at the Center for Southeast Asia, Aus-tralia and Oceania, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sci-ences, head of the youth section of the Association of the South Pacific Re-gion Researchers, member of the youth council of the Miklouho-Maclay Foundation, St. Petersburg.