Experts

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Research Fellow of the Department for European Political Studies at Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Research Fellow at the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in History, Research Fellow at the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Valdai Discussion Club Expert

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

PhD Candidate in International Relations, specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Turkey

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences