Experts

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

PhD., HSE Professor

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State 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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

President, Global Migration Policy Associates

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Doctor of Economics, Executive Director, Russian National Committee on BRICS Research

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.