Experts

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

Independent expert

University of Birmingham

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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 Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences