Experts

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

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

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

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

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

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Senior Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University of Aerospace Instrumentation (SUAI); Adviser to the Chair of the St. Petersburg Government Committee for External Relations

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

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

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member