Experts

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

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

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Doctor of Economics, Head of Marketing and Advertising Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Honorary Member of the Guild of Marketers

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, School of International Regional Studies, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), Research Fellow, International Laboratory on World Order Studies and the New Regionalism at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

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

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

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

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

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

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)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

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

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

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

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

Independent expert