Experts

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Head of Dual Master's Programs, Master's Programs Directorate, MGIMO-University

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Third Secretary, Press-Attaché of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Ankara

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

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)

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Independent Analyst

International Security expert, MA in International Affairs, Sciences Po Paris/MGIMO

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Doctor of law, Professor, Assistant Rector for Research, Chairman of the Council for the coordination of international and innovation activities of the Kutafin Moscow state law University, RIAC Member

PhD., HSE Professor

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia