Experts

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

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

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

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

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

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

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

PhD in Economics, Head of the Center for Agrarian Research and Food Security, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent