Experts

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in History, Vice Rector, HSE University, RIAC Member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

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

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

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

Independent journalist

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations