Experts

Independent Analyst

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

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

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

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

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

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

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

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

Independent expert

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

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