Experts

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Independent Analyst

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

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, RIAC member

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Independent Analyst

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

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

University of Birmingham

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation