Experts

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

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

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

Doctor of Sciences in History, Chair of the Department of Contemporary History of Russia at the Institute of History and Archives of RSUH, RIAC Member

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Independent Analyst

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

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

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Editor-in Chief, Russkiy Mir Journal

Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Senior Fellow, Energy, Investment and Connectivity, Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

MGIMO University