Experts

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Ph.D. in Political Science; Consultant, PIR Center

Humanitarian Affairs Adviser, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Regional Delegation in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Independent Analyst

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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

PhD in Philology, Leading Researcher at the German Studies Center of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Retired Vice-admiral

Ph.D. in Law, Associate Professor at the Department of State and Law Theory, International Law and Comparative Legal Studies, Voronezh State University; Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Public Administration Technologies at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

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

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor of Applied Political Science Department at Financial University of the Russian Federation Government

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Expert