Experts

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

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

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

HSE University Student

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Ph.D, researcher Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

MGIMO-University

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Doctor of History, Professor, Comparative Political Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Economics, RAS Corresponding Member

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University