Experts

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Independent Analyst

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

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

PhD in Political Science

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

University of Birmingham

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Independent expert

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