Experts

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

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Post-Graduate Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Expert of the Institute for Contemporary International Studies

Doctor in History, Professor at Department of world politics, Tomsk State University

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Independent journalist and researcher

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

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