Experts

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Global Vice President, 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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

University of Birmingham

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge