Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former senior Australian diplomat

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

Political observer

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

PhD in Political Science

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

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

PhD in Law, MGIMO University

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Independent journalist and researcher

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council