Experts

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow

Ph.D. in Economics, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Independent expert

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

PhD in Political Science and Law, Associate Professor, Presidential Academy of National Economy (RANEPA)

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project

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

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Director of the Department for Multilateral Economic Cooperation and Special Projects, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Expert at the Middle East Institute

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

PhD in Philosophy, Adviser to the director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, Asia and Middle East specialist

Observer, International Affairs monthly

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

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for the Middle East Studies, Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor-in-Chief of the Nuclear Physics and Engineering Journal, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in Political Science, Professor, Dept. of International Relations, Seoul National University

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Economics, RAS Institute of Far Eastern Studies