Experts

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

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

Research Fellow

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

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

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

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

Institute of Oriental Studies

Consultant in Trade and Food Security, and Director of “Green House”

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”