Experts

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

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

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Political Scientist

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

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

Independent expert

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University