Experts

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Economic Research at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Foreign Regional Studies of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

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

MA in International Studies and Diplomacy, Political Risk Analyst

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

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Senior Fellow and Vice President at the Observer Research Foundation

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Assistant Professor at St. Petersburg State University

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

PhD fellow at the Chair of International Law, PFUR Law School

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

PhD in Economics

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Ambassador of the Republic of Yemen to Russia

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Research Fellow at the European Leadership Network

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

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

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

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, MGIMO University

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University