Experts

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

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

Independent expert

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

Independent Analyst

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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