Experts

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

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

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

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

PhD., HSE Professor

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Leading Research Associate at the RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Independent Expert

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

CEO and co-founder of Hozint - Horizon Intelligence, founder and director of the International Security Observer

Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

Visiting Professor at Waseda University

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

PhD. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) and Head of the IFSH’s Centre
for OSCE Research (CORE)

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform