Experts

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

President, Synergia Foundation

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 in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Independent journalist

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences