Experts

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Independent expert

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

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

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation. Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Foreign Affairs

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues, RIAC expert

RIAC Expert

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University, RIAC Expert

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

University of Birmingham

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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