Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

Political Scientist

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Independent expert

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

Independent Analyst

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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