Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

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

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

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

Political Scientist

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge