Experts

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

PhD in History, Sector Head at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Head of international contacts and press relations service of the Gorbachev Foundation. Foreign affairs expert and journalist

Master Student at MGIMO-University

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

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

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Candidate of History, Assistant Professor, Oriental Political Studies Dept. Institute for African and Asian Studies Moscow State University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

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 Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Political Analyst

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

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

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