Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Independent expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, 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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Political Scientist

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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