Experts

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Sociological and Political Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Doctor of Science (History), professor, Acting Director, Institute for US and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Science, RIAC Member

PhD in political science

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science, Research Associate at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

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

Independent Expert