Experts

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Holy See and RF Representative to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, RIAC member

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

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America, RAS Corresponding Member

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

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

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics