Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science

Independent Analyst

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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