Experts

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Political Scientist

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent expert

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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