Experts

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

Ph.D. in Historical Sciences, Research Fellow at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Political Science

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

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

Independent expert

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

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

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies