Experts

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Political observer

PhD in Economics, MBA, Lead Research Fellow (Center for International Economic Relations Studies), Institute for Finance and Economic Research, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, Moscow, Russia

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

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

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies, RIAC Expert

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

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 University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, RIAC Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Independent Analyst

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University, RIAC Expert

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy, RIAC Expert

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

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara