Experts

IE Business School in Madrid Graduate, MGIMO-University Graduate

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Associate Professor, Yerevan State Linguistic University

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Political Science PhD, associate professor, head of department of European integration at MGIMO-University, leading research fellow at the RAS Institute of Europe

Associate Professor of International Relations, Koç University (Turkey)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

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

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Graduated in Political Science to the Catholic University of the Sacread Heart (Milan)

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Doctor of History, Professor of the Comparative Political Studies Department at MGIMO-University

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University