Experts

Independent expert

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

PhD in Political Science

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 Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Independent Analyst

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

Independent Analyst

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences