Experts

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

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Doctor of History, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Ph.D. in Political Science, Deputy Director of the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

PhD in Technical Sciences, Founder, Aigents, Architect, SingularityNET

Deputy director of Department of implementation of Program for assisting compatriots in foreign residence in their voluntary resettlement to the Russian Federation of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

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

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

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

PhD in Political Science, Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations of the Eastern University – School of Regional and International Studies of the Far Eastern Federal University

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Independent Analyst

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Professor of Foreign Regions Chair at Russian State University for Humanities, Expert on history of CEE countries

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia

Dean of the Department of World Economics and World Politics of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Head of the Department of Science and Innovation at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Senior Fellow at the Laboratory of International Process Analysis at MGIMO under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

PhD of Political Science, Research Fellow at Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences