Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Political Scientist

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, 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