Experts

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Political Scientist

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

Independent expert

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS