Experts

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Chief Research Fellow at the Center for World Politics and Strategic Analysis, Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS); Head of the Center for Russia’s Strategy in Asia, Institute of Economics of RAS

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Lt. General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

Doctor of Philosophy, MGIMO Professor

INSOR Director for International Development

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, EU and CE policy department of the Institute of European Studies at MGIMO University

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

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)

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Retired Vice-admiral

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Doctor of History, Professor at MGIMO-University

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