Experts

Expert on Development Assistace

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

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

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

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

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

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

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

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

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

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Expert at the Middle East Institute