Experts

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

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

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

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

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Independent expert

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

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

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

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

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

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 Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association