Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

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

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Independent expert

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues