Experts

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

University of Birmingham

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Independent expert

Independent Analyst

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India