Experts

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

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

RAS Institute of Economics

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

President of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Associate, RAS Institute of Slavonic Studies

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

Former senior Australian diplomat

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Head of Research, Center for Situational Analysis at RAS, member of the Directorate of IMEMO RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Senator of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member