Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues