Experts

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

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

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

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

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

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

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

Senior Lecturer, Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University “LETI” and Saint Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent expert

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

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, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

University of Birmingham

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Ph.D. in Political Science; Professor, Institute of International Relations at Pyatigorsk State University

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Asia and Eurasia Program at the Russian International Affairs Council

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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