Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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 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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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