Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Independent expert

University of Birmingham

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Political Scientist

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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 Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Independent Analyst

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent