Experts

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

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

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

PhD in History, Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Leading Research Fellow

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Vice President of the Schiller Institute USA, National Spokesman for Lyndon LaRouche

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

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

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine