Experts

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

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

Independent journalist, RIAC expert

Ph.D., Professor of World Politics Department, Moscow State University

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge, RIAC expert

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Ph.D. in History, Associate professor, Department of Diplomacy, Vice-Rector for HR Policy, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

President, Synergia Foundation

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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 History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University, RIAC expert

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Member of the Council of the Federation, RIAC member

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

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra