Experts

Independent journalist

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

MA, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

MGIMO University

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Independent Expert

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

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, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

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)

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia