Experts

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

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

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

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Independent expert

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal 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

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

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Independent Analyst

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

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

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh