Experts

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Ph.D. in Law, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Legislation and Comparative Law under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Deputy director and senior fellow with the Europe Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert

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

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Independent Analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand