Experts

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

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

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

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Journalist, Sinologist

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Former senior Australian diplomat

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

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

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

PhD in Economics, Head of the European Security Department RAS Institute of Europe

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Independent Analyst

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC