Experts

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

Independent expert

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

PhD in Political Science

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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 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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Independent Analyst

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Political Scientist

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger