Experts

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

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Independent expert

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

Independent Analyst

Political Scientist

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

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

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

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