Experts

PhD (Political Science), Leading Researcher, Head, Centre for Sociological and Political Sciences Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

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

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

PhD in History, Expert on Latin America expert

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Independent Expert

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Independent expert

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University