Experts

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Cand.Sc.(Ped.), Junior Research Fellow, Moscow Lomonosov University

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN

Independent journalist and researcher

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Center for Advanced American Studies at MGIMO University; Non-resident Scholar, Conflict Resolution and Track II Dialogues Program, Middle East Institute

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

Executive Director of Gorchakov Foundation for Public Diplomacy Support, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Research Fellow

Ph.D. in International Relations, Deputy Director of Institute for Iran & Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Lecturer at University of Tehran

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

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

Independent Analyst

Deputy Director-General, Institute of Energy Strategy

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher at RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, RIAC Member

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

PhD in Philosophy, Film critic

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

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

PhD in Political Science, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

D.Sc., Head of the Center for U.S. Foreign Policy Studies, U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences

Lecturer and Deputy Head of the Department of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy at Baku Slavic University, Employee at the Department of International Politics and Foreign Policy, Institute for Political Science, University of Cologne

PhD in Political Science

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member