Experts

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

Independent Analyst

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Political Scientist

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

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

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

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

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

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

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

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

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

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

Independent expert

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Independent Analyst

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

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

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

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

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

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

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