Experts

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Ph.D. in Technical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Energy Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Infrastructure Development Research, Institute of Economics and Utility Regulation, Higher School of Economics

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

MGIMO-University

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

Independent Expert

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

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

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

MA, MGIMO University

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

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

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

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., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University