Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

Political Scientist

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

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

Independent Analyst

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

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