Experts

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

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

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

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

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Analyst, IDIP RFTA

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

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

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

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

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

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

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Deputy Director of the Center for African Studies, HSE University

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Independent Analyst

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator