Experts

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

First Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Head of the Center for International Security of IMEMO, RAS Full Member, RIAC member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Center for Middle East Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the RAS; Associate Professor at the Department of Economics and Economic Geography of Asian and African countries, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics and Politics of Japan

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

Chief economist at the VEB.RF, RIAC member.

Brazilian columnist and RIAC blogger

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

PhD in History, Senior research fellow, The Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

PhD in Geography, senior researcher, Institute of Demography HSE

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), Head of Section of the Asia-Pacific Region Problems, IMEMO RAN

Doctor of Political Science, Director of Center for Political Studies of the RAS Institute of Latin America, Professor of Global Processes Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Ph.D in Political Science, Foreign Affairs Analyst

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Department of World Politics at MGIMO University