Experts

PhD (History), Leading Researcher, Head, Center for Tropical Africa Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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)

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

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

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

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

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Academic Director of the RAS Institute of General History, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics