Experts

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

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

University of Birmingham

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

PhD in Political Science

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

Independent expert