Experts

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

Doctor of History, Professor, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Eurasian Studies, Diplomatic Academy of Russian Foreign Ministry

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

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

Assistant researcher at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

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

PhD in international relations, contributor to the German Caucasus Watch

PhD Candidate and Senior Lecturer at Novosibirsk State University (Russia) and Research Fellow at the Stanford US-Russia Forum (USA)

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

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

Ph.D. in Law, Research Fellow at Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies, the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

MGIMO-University

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

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)