Experts

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

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

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Political Analyst

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Deputy Chairman, Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO

Professor of government and politics at George Mason University

Independent Expert

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law

Ph.D in History, Assistant professor of the Chair of International Relations and Diplomacy at the Moscow Humanitarian University

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

Political Scientist

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

PhD in Political Science, Independent Analyst

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Scientific Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America, RAS Corresponding Member

PhD in Political Science, Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

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