Experts

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Vice President of the Schiller Institute USA, National Spokesman for Lyndon LaRouche

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Deputy Director, TV Channel "Rossiya" (RTR), Manager and Presenter of “News on Saturday with Sergey Brilev”

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the History Faculty, Moscow State University

MGIMO University

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Independent journalist

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, 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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, RIAC Member

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE