Experts

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

Associate Professor of Sociology & Social Policy, the University of Sydney

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Political Scientist

PhD in Political Science, Director of the EU Political Integration Center at RAS Institute for European Studies

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)

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

Employee at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Cairo, Central Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in the 2000s, currently works in the oil and gas industry

Founder and Chairman, CeNext Consulting Group, New Delhi

Chairman of the Federation Council Commission on Information Policy and Media Relations, RIAC Member

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Chief Research Fellow of the RAS Vavilov Institute of Natural History and Technology, RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC Member

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

President of the Jordan-based Political Studies of the Middle East Center, Founder of the US-based Geostrategic and Media Center

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

Research Analyst Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Research Fellow of the Euro-Atlantic Security Center at MGIMO University

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

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

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

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Director of the MGIMO Centre for Sustainable Development, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council