Experts

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the Center for Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Ukraine

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Deputy Director of Programs

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO)

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

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)

Ph.D., Associate Professor, Deputy Head of the Department of Political Science at the Higher School of Economics National Research University Campus in St. Petersburg, Assistant at the Graduate School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

PhD in political science

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant

Dr., Head of the Center for Comparative Eurasia Studies and Surveys, CEASS-Vienna

Professor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University, RIAC member

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

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

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University