Experts

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

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

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Independent Analyst

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Political Scientist

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

University of Birmingham