Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

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

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

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Independent expert

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

Independent Analyst

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan