Experts

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Director of IMEMO RAS, RIAC member

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Center for Regional Studies at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies

Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, NatStrat, India

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

PhD in History, Director of the Institute of Latin America of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

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

PhD in history

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations