Experts

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in Political Science

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

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

Independent expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

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

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 Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Political Scientist

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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 History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Independent Analyst

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

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