Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Independent Analyst

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences