Experts

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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)

Independent journalist

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

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

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Expert

Ph.D. in History; Senior Lecturer, Department of Theory and History of International Relations, Research Fellow, Center for Applied Analysis of Global Transformations, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)

Adviser to the Russian Trade Mission to Finland

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst