Experts

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

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

PhD in Economics

MA, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

PhD in History, independent journalist

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Retired Vice-admiral

Independent Analyst

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Professor, Department of World Economy and Global Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Program Assistant at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

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

Independent journalist

PhD in Economics, Head of the innovative direction at the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Former senior Australian diplomat