Experts

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

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

PhD in Political Science

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Independent expert

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences