Experts

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

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

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the 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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

University of Birmingham

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

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

Independent Analyst

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

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

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