Experts

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

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

Political Scientist

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Independent Analyst

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