Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Independent expert

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher, IMEMO RAS

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland