Experts

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Independent Analyst

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Independent Analyst

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Independent expert

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

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

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

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 researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India