Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Independent Analyst

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Political Scientist

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

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