Experts

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Political Scientist

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

PhD in Political Science

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan