Experts

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Independent Analyst

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Ph.D., Senior Research Fellow, NatStrat, India

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Director of the Centre for Cross-Sectoral Expertise “Third Rome”, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Research Consultant, Chintan Research Foundation, New Delhi, Senior Research Fellow & PhD Candidate, Centre for Russian and Central Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

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

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

Postgraduate student, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran