Experts

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

PhD (History), Research Fellow at School of International Affairs, Higher School of Economics, Moscow

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Doctor of History, RIAC member

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

Institute of Oriental Studies

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

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

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Dr. of History, Chief Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Academy of Education, RIAC member

Doctor of Philological Sciences, Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor at the Financial University, RIAC Member