Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Independent expert

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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, 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

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

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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)

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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