Experts

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO 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

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Political Analyst

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Former senior Australian diplomat