Experts

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Economics, Head of the Production Support Department at Gazpromneft-Sakhalin

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Former First Deputy Chief of the Military Science Department, Russian Armed Forces General Staff

PhD, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” Project at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies,HSE University, RIAC Member

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

Professor, Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences, Kadir Has University

Chairman of the Board of the CREON Group, RIAC Member

President of the Russian-American Council of Business Cooperation

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

PhD in Law, Associate Transparency International-R lawyer, Assistant Professor of the Moscow State Law Academy

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State 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

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, School of Asian Studies, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Senior Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Academic Director of Siberian Federal University, RAS Full Member