Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Ph.D. in History

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

RF state counselor, 1st class, RIAC Member

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Temporary – Assistant Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC Member