Experts

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

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

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Expert at the Laboratory of Asia-Pacific International Institutions and Multilateral Cooperation, Far Eastern State University School of Regional and International Studies, Сorrespondent of the Regional News Agency Data

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Assistant Professor, Department of Near and Middle Eastern History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

PhD in History, Working Group Coordinator at the Central Eurasia Research Center, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

RAS Institute of Economics

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Doctor of History, Head of the Political and Military Research Unit at the RAS Institute of USA and Canada Studies

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration of Russia, Press Secretary of the President

Independent journalist

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

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia