Experts

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Professor at the Diplomacy Department at MGIMO Russia, Chief Research Fellow of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Independent Expert

Ph.D in Political Science, Expert on International Affairs and Russia–Turkey Relations

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs of the Higher School of Economics; research fellow at the RAS Institute of Latin American Studies; research fellow at the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD., HSE Professor

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Scientific Director of the RAS Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, RAS Full Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of International Research, MGIMO University, RIAC Member

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen