Experts

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Economics Expert at Discussion Society Liberal Cub, Belarus

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

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

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Independent journalist

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

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

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

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

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

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

MGIMO-University

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger