Experts

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

PhD in History, Political Studies Center of the RAS Institute of Economics

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Doctor of Economy, Professor, Professor, Member of the Global Migration Policy Associates

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

Doctor of Historical Sciences, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

PIR Center Director

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

President of the The Piatigorsky Foundation, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)