Experts

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

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

Ph. D., Assistant Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Political scientist, Moldova

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

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

Research Assistant, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Academic librarian at the University of East London

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Independent expert, specializes in EU, US and WTO affairs

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

International College of Economics and Finance, Higher School of Economics

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

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

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

International lawyer, Ph.D. in History, Ph.D. in Law

Ph.D., Institute of International Relations and World History, N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)