Experts

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

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

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

INSOR Director for International Development

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Deputy Finance Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Head of the Program (Tech Policy) at the Russian International Affairs Council

Research Fellow

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Head of Department, Deputy Director of the General Office of Eastern-European Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Independent journalist

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University