Experts

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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 Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

PhD in Political Science

Independent Analyst

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute