Experts

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Independent Expert

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Ph.D. of Economics, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS)

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Leading Specialist, Marketing Department, Rosatom Energy Projects

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Post-Graduate Researcher at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Expert of the Institute for Contemporary International Studies

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Political Scientist

Head of the ICRC Regional Delegation for the Russian Federation and Belarus

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD in history

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Research fellow at Insitute of Latin Anerica of RAS