Experts

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Independent expert

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

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Ph.D in History, Leading Research Fellow at MGIMO University, Editor-in-Chief of International Analytics Magazine

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

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

University of Birmingham

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

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

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Independent Analyst

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the People's Republic of China, RIAC Member

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

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

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

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

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

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

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

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