Experts

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Former senior Australian diplomat

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States