Experts

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

PIR Center Director

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

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

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

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

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Master Student at MGIMO-University

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in history, Department of Modern History and Socio-Political issues of Central and South Eastern European Countries, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member