Experts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Independent expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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