Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

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

Independent expert

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

PhD in Political Science

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

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

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