Experts

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

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

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

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. in History

Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, NatStrat, India

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS