Experts

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Member of the Committee on defense and security of The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC member.

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Expert on Development Assistace

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

RIAC Expert

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

Political observer

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU, RIAC Expert

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate, RIAC expert.

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor of the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Leading Research Fellow, Head of the Center for Italian Studies, Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, RIAC Expert

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

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

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University, RIAC expert