Experts

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

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

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Independent Analysts, Energy consultant, eXelen srl

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

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

MGIMO-University

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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