Experts

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

PhD in History, Economic Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

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

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Analyst in charge of Former Soviet Union and Balkans Desk at Ce.S.I. Centro Studi Internazionali

Academic librarian at the University of East London

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Independent journalist and researcher

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

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

Assistant Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University (Turkey)

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Independent journalist

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

Doctor of History, RIAC member