Experts

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

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

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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