Experts

Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Political Scientist

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Independent Analyst

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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

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

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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