Experts

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

INSOR Director for International Development

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial 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

Doctor of Economics, Head of the Center for Strategic Analysis and Planning, Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

President, Synergia Foundation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Leading analyst, Center for Energy and Digital Economy Stretegic Research, MGIMO University. Founder, President of Honour, MGIMO Arctic Student Research Club

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Arctic and Northern economies under the Council for the Study of Productive Forces (SOPS),Associate Professor of Philosophy, Economics and Social Sciences Department of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Doctor of Economics, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, RIAC Member

University of Birmingham

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America