Experts

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Independent Expert

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

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

PhD in History, senior research fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, RAS; associate professor, Department of Regional Issues in Global Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Dual Master in Governance and Global Affairs (MGIMO) and International Relations (LUISS)

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Senior Fellow at East-West Institute, Brussels

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

PhD in History, Researcher at the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph. D., Executive Vice President of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Expert, Ukrainian Institute of Politics

President of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, RIAC member.

Professor, Doctor of Law; president of the Chair of International Law at the People’s Friendship University of Russia; member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Political Scientist

Independent journalist and researcher

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Member of the State Duma, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Dean of Public Administration Faculty of the Moscow State University, RIAC Member

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

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

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America