Experts

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

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Head of the Center of the Indo-Pacific Region, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

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

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

Ph.D. researcher, Faculty of Economics, University of Belgrade

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

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

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

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

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

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

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

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

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand