Experts

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Junior Research Fellow, Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Ph.D. in Political Science, expert at the Centre for Crisis Society Studies (Centero)

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University