Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Independent Analyst

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg 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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Political Scientist

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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 to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

Independent Analyst

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