Experts

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Head of Department of Economic Policy and Public-Private Partnership at MGIMO-University

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

Ph.D. (Engineering), President Eurasia Heritage Foundation

Director of Center for Energy and Security Studies, chief editor of Yaderny Club magazine, member of Scientific Council of the Security Council, RIAC member

PhD, Chief of the Executive Committee CIS Electric Power Council

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD Candidate, University of Otago, New Zealand

Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, RIAC Member.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Ph.D., senior researcher, Russia – China Centre, RAS Far East Institute

Doctor of Philosophy, Head of the Center for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS)

Independent analyst

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

Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University