Experts

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent Analyst

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

University of Birmingham

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

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

PhD in Political Science

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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