Experts

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

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

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

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

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

PhD in Political Sciences, Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, National Research University Higher School of Economics

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

Dr. of Economics, Head of the Sector of Economics of Science and Innovative Processes RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Doctor of Economy, Professor of MGIMO, Chief Scientific Fellow of the Far East Institute of RAS

Director of the Baltic Studies Institute of I. Kant Baltic Federal University

Ph.D. in History, Scientific Advisor of The Evgeny Primakov Center for International Cooperation, Senior Research Fellow, Center for the Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies RAS

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Former senior Australian diplomat

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Research Fellow & Coordinator West Asia Centre, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D. from Duisburg University, Senior Advisor of the German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Leading Research Fellow at the Korean Studies Center, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

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

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)