Experts

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Head of the Scientific and Organizational Department at the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Engineering, Associate Professor

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

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

PhD in History, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Professor at the HSE University, RIAC Member

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

PhD in Philology, Associate professor, Mass-Media Institute, Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

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

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

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

Political observer

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Department of Asian and African Studies; Researcher, Center for Comprehensive Chinese Studies and Regional Projects at MGIMO University

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Senior Officer, International Arctic The Pew Charitable Trusts