Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science; Consultant, PIR Center

Former senior Australian diplomat

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Independent Analyst

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Researcher, Junior Research Fellow at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Senior Lecturer at Asian and African Studies from Moscow State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

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

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS