Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

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 Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

PhD in History, Senior Research Fellow at Political Studies Centre, Institute of Latin America, RAS

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

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

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

RAS Institute of Economics

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Population Studies Chair at Economy Department, Moscow State University

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

PhD in Philosophy, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Science

Program Coordinator, Website Content Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Independent journalist

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

Head of the Department of Military-Political Research at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London