Experts

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

Independent Analyst

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina