Experts

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

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

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Political Scientist

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

Independent expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

University of Birmingham

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

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

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