Experts

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

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

Ph.D., Professor of Political Ideas and Institutions, Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi, Former British diplomat

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, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Political Scientist

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Independent Analyst

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung