Experts

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Institute of Oriental Studies

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher, Head, Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Director of Center for International and European Law, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Independent Expert

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

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

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

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

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

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University