Experts

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

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

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

University of Birmingham

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

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

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Independent Analyst

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member