Experts

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

PhD in political science

Assistant Professor at the University of Crete, Department of Political Science

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Dr. of Social Sciences, Professor of the International Journalism Department at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of Polis. Political Research, Russia’s leading journal on political science, senior researcher at IMEMO RAN

Doctor in Political Science, PhD in History, Professor at School of world politics of MSU

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

International Information Security and Global Internet Governance Program Coordinator, PIR Center

Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

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

President of World Russian Press Foundation (WARP Foundation), professor, RIAC member

MA, International Relations Pierre Mendès-France University, Post-graduate, UNICAMP University, Brazil

Counselor of the National Committee for BRICS Research

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. (History), Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

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

Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

Director of the Department of the Government Support of Periodical Press and Book Industry, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

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

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

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