Experts

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

PhD. in History, Research Fellow, Center for Middle East Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS)

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

Master of Science (Econ) from Copenhagen Business School, University degree in Spanish Culture and Languages from University of Copenhagen

PhD in Political Studies, Associate Professor at European Studies Department, Saint Petersburg State University

Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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, Head, Center for Social and Political Research, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes, Russian Foreign Trade Academy, Associate Professor, Financial University

Doctor of Economics, Chief Research Fellow of IMEMO, RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Director of the Sino-Russian Research Centre for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

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

Ph.D in History, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Center for Tropical African Studies, Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

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

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

Former Chairman of Indian Space Research Organization

Faculty of International Relations of St. Petersburg State University