Experts

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor at MGIMO-University Integration Processes Department

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Institute of Oriental Studies

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

PhD in History, Head of the Korea and Mongolia Department, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group