Experts

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

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; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

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

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

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

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation