Experts

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center, RIAC expert

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

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

Deputy Head, Department of Political Theory, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Member of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on International Affairs

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Independent expert

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University