Experts

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

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

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

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

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

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

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

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

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

Junior Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies