Experts

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, 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”

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

University of Birmingham

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute