Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Lecturer, Department of Legal Regulation of Fuel and Energy at the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Research fellow at Insitute of Latin Anerica of RAS

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia