Experts

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

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Independent Analyst

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

Political Scientist

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent expert

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

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