Experts

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

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

President, Synergia Foundation

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Expert for the Center for African Studies, HSE University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

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

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

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

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

Independent journalist and researcher

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

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University