Experts

Independent expert

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

University of Birmingham

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD in Political Science

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Independent Analyst

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

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, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory