Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Political Science

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Political Scientist

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Independent expert

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues