Experts

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Research Fellow with the Crisis Society Study Centre

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia)

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science

Former senior Australian diplomat

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Doctor of History, Head of Vishegrad centre at the RAS Institute of Europe, Head of Central and Eastern Europe studies department

Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social, Political and Economic Problems in the 20th Century, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Research fellow at the French Institute for International Relations (Paris, France)

Doctor of Political Science, Head of the Regional Research Department of Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Director of the Institute of Asia and Africa of MSU , RIAC Member

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Director of Foreign Policy at the Centre for European Reform

Associate Professor, Political Science and International Relations, Marmara University (Turkey)

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU