Experts

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

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

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Journalist, Sinologist

Academic librarian at the University of East London

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Director of the Center for advanced studies of national security of Russia, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

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

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Deputy Chairman of the Russia mufties Council and Head of the International Affairs Department of DUM RF

Gateway House Fellow for Energy & Environment

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Independent journalist

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

MGIMO University

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

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

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century