Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Dean of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC member.

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

RIAC Expert

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

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

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, RIAC Expert

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

MA, Higher School of Economics, RIAC expert and blogger

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, 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, RIAC expert

RIAC Expert

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh