Experts

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

BA in International Relations, Higher School of Economics

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

MGIMO-University

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Doctor of History, Director of the Center for the Study of the Contemporary Balkan crisis of the RAS Institute of Slavic Studies, Academician of the Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Former senior Australian diplomat

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

К.и.н., заведующая Центром истории и культурной антропологии Института Африки РАН, эксперт РСМД

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Independent expert

Political Analyst

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin