Experts

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

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 to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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 Political Science

Political Scientist

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)