Experts

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

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

Retired Vice-admiral

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, RIAC member

Dr. of History, Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Chief Researcher at the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Editor-in-Chief of the Latin America journal, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ph.D, Associate Professor and the Vice Chair of the IR Department at Kirikkale University, Türkiye

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics