Experts

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Independent journalist and researcher

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

General and Russian History Department of the Higher School of Economics

RIAC Expert

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC expert, RIAC member

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Independent analyst

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

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

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

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