Experts

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

Master of Economics, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), Program jointly with UIBE (Beijing): “Russian and China: Economic and Political Trends in Eurasia”

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

Professor, National University of Villa Maria, Argentina

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

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

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

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

University of Birmingham

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Doctor of History, Professor, Ural Federal University

PhD in Political Science

PhD, Regular commentator on risk-related geostrategic issues

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

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

Ph.D, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)

Doctor of Political Science, Leading researcher, RAS Institute of Philosophy

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Ph.D, Vice-Rector for HR, Associate professor at the Department of Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Independent expert

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

Political Scientist

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

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

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

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Doctor of Political Science, Expert at the Institute of Oriental studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and a Professor in the Department of Oriental Studies in the Russian State University for Humanities

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh