Experts

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Observer, International Affairs monthly

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

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

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

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

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in History

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State 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

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS