Experts

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

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

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

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

PhD in Political Science

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

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

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

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

Independent Analyst

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

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

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

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

Political Scientist

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO of Digital Forensic Laboratory

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

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

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

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor

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

Independent expert

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent