Experts

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

PhD in History, Research fellow of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dr.Sc. (Econ.), Professor, Director of the RAS Institute for African Studies, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”