Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

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

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

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

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of IMEМО RAS, Professor of MGIMO University, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Ph.D, Senior lecturer at People’s Friendship University of Russia

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

PhD in History, Head of the European Union Studies Department, IMEMO RAN, RIAC expert

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in History, Head of IMEMO RAN Department, Professor of MGIMO University

Member of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on International Affairs

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies