Experts

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

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Former senior Australian diplomat

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

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

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council, Graduate Student at the MGIMO University

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Science (Economics), Corresponding Members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Deputy Director for scientific work, RAS Institute of Europe, RIAC Member

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

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

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD, Economics. Center for Military and Industrial Policy Institute for US and Canadian Studies

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues