Experts

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Independent expert

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in Political Science

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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 History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council