Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Independent expert

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

University of Birmingham

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Independent Analyst

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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