Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the School of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Head of International Cooperation Department, Integration Development Department, EEC

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

Independent Analyst

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

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Doctor of Sciences in Economics, Professor, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chief Research Officer at the Institute of Economics and Industrial Engineering within the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

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

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

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