Experts

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

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. 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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

University of Birmingham

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Political Scientist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University, RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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, RIAC Expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Independent expert

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

RIAC Expert

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada