Experts

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Independent expert

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

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation