Experts

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

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

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

Political Scientist

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

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

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Independent Analyst

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Independent Analyst

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge