Experts

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, MGIMO 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

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

RAS Institute of Economics

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

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

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent expert

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

PhD Student, RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO RAN)

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Associate at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO); Senior Lecturer at MGIMO University

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

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Assistant Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies, at the Department of International Relations, Goa University

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

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