Experts

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 Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD in History, Arab and Islamic Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Center for Global Studies & International Relations at the Diplomatic Academy under the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor of the Diplomacy Department of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Witology, Chairman of Board of League of Independent Experts

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences