Experts

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

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

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

University of Birmingham

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Independent Analyst

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent