Experts

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Group of Regional Political Problems of the East and South, Center for Development and Modernization Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Independent Analyst

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Foreign Economy Policy Sector, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Applied Economic Studies, Presidential Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Doctor of Economics, Executive Director, Russian National Committee on BRICS Research

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Analyst at CNA Corporation

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Researcher at the International Institutes Research Center at the Institute of Applied Economic Policies, Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)