Experts

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Independent Analyst

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

University of Birmingham

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Political Scientist

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

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

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