Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

PhD in Political Science

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Independent expert

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

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 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

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

Political Scientist

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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