Experts

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Chief Economist; Advisor to the Minister for Economic Development of the Russian Federation MTS Bank

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Special representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Relations with International Organisations, RIAC Member

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

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

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

Post-graduate student in the Russia in the Asia-Pacific Region: Politics, Economy, Security international educational program at the Far Eastern State University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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)

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)