Experts

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

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

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

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Independent expert

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Political Scientist

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

University of Birmingham

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger