Experts

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Independent Expert

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE