Experts

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

INSOR Director for International Development

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, 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

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

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Retired Vice-admiral

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Political Analyst