Experts

Retired Vice-admiral

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

PhD, Head of Computational Genomics, Department of Oncology, University of Oxford, Russia’s Representative in ELIXIR Consortium

Independent journalist

PhD in History, independent journalist

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Academic Director, SKOLKOVO Institute for Emerging Market Studies

Third Secretary, RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

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

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

INSOR Director for International Development

Research Fellow, MSU Institute of Information Security Issues

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Research Associate at the Institute for International Studies (IIS) of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Independent Analyst

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

PhD in Economics

Associate Professor, Senior researcher at the Сenter for civilizational and regional studies of the Institute of Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), Member of the Executive Committee of the World Federation of Scientists (WSWF)

Doctor of pedagogical Sciences, professor, member of the Russian Academy of Education, RIAC member

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

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Rector of the National Research University-Higher School of Economics

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

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

Professor at Middle Tennessee State University

Doctor of Economics, Leading Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

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

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MSc Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota. PhD candidate.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Ph.D., Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences, Former editor-in-chief of Russia Direct, an analytical media outlet

Rector of the Urals Federal University named after the First Russian President B.N. Yeltsyn