Experts

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

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

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

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

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

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Head of the Department "Public-Private Partnership", Faculty "Higher School of Management", Financial University, RIAC Member

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ph.D. of Law, Senior Research Fellow, Deputy Director, Institute for Global Governance Studies, Shanghai Institutes for International Study (SIIS)

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas