Experts

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Independent Analyst

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in Political Science

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Independent expert

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council