Experts

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Political Scientist

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Independent Analyst

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

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

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

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