Experts

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

Independent expert

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD in Political Science

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute