Experts

Ph.D., Associate Director of and Research Professor at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott School of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Director of the Research Institute for European and American Studies based in Athens, Greece

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Ph.D., assistant professor of Russian history, Urals Federal University

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

Doctor of physics and mathematics, Expert in scientific research commercialization

Ph.D. (Military Sciences), Col. Gen. (Ret.), Research Professor, Advanced National Security Studies Center, Expert Institute, Higher School of Economics National Research University, Moscow

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

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

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

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

Director of the Center for Post-Soviet Studies at the MGIMO University, 2nd Class Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Doctor of History

Ph.D. in Political Science and Associate Professor and Distinguished Researcher at the Tsinghua University Technology Innovation Research Centre, and Executive Secretary of the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

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