Experts

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Global Politics Department of St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Secretary-General of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Dr. of Philosophy, Senior Research Fellow RAS INION, Professor, MGIMO University, Professor, Higher School of Economics, Honorary President, Russian Political Science Association

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at World Politics Department, MGIMO University

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Technical Sciences, CEO and Co-Founder of TSS Ltd

Corresponding Member of RAS, Doctor of Economics, RIAC Member

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Moscow State Institute for International Relations

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

PhD in Law, PhD of Potsdam University

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries