Experts

Independent expert

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science

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

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Independent Analyst

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Political Scientist

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh