Experts

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

President, Synergia Foundation

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

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)

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

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

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies