Experts

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Independent expert

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

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

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

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member