Experts

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Independent expert

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Military Observer Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Conflicts at the Institute of Innovative Development

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University

Doctor of Political Sciences, Deputy Director of the Caucasus Institute

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of Political Science and Political Management in the Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan

Research Analyst at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat)

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

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

University of Birmingham

Political Scientist

PhD in Political Science

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”