Experts

Deputy Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Head of the "Africa in the Focus of Russian Interests" Programme at the MGIMO University

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

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

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

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

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent journalist

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow