Experts

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Ph.D. in History, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk State Technical University; Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

INSOR Director for International Development

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

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

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

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 (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata