Experts

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Independent expert

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Lecturer at the Saint 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

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Observer, International Affairs monthly

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University