Experts

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

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

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

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues