Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

University of Birmingham

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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