Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

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

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Doctor of Political Science; Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Department of International Relations of the HSE University; Professor, World Economy Department, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries