Experts

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

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

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

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

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

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Head of Program Education and Science, Deaf-blind Support Fund So-edinenie (Connection)

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University