Experts

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academic Director of the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ph.D. in Political Science; Consultant, PIR Center

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

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

PhD in History, independent journalist

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

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

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Independent Expert

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization