Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

University of Birmingham

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University