Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

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

Political Scientist

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

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

University of Birmingham

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Independent expert

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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