Experts

Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Political Analyst

MGIMO University

Senior research fellow, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

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

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

D.Sc. in Law, Professor, Department of European Law, MGIMO University; Professor, Institute of Management and Territorial Development, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

Research assistant at ISPI for the Migration Programme

Ph.D. in History, Senior Research Fellow at European Political Studies Department, IMEMO RAN

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Deputy Head, CCEIS Asia-Pacific Department, National Research University Higher School of Economics

Senior Associate, Bedell Cristin, Singapore

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, Ph.D. in Legal Sciences, Deputy Head of the Department of International Law at MGIMO University

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Economist and International Relations Analyst, Project Coordinator of “Greece, Cyprus, Egypt & Israel: Opportunities and Restrictions of a Mediterranean Coalition” at the International Relations Institute of Athens

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Strategic Planning Studies, IMEMO

Independent Analyst

Professor of the Chair of Modern East Department of History, Political Science and Law, Russian State University for the Humanities

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the World Politics Department of the Higher School of Economics

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

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Head of the Global Political Processes Department of the MGIMO University

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences