Experts

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

Independent journalist

Research fellow at TU Dortmund University, specialist in autonomous decision-making systems

Doctor of History, RIAC member

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor, Saint-Petersburg State Mining University

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

Institute of Oriental Studies

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

PhD, Rector of the HSE University, RIAC Member

Head of Defense Studies Department at Armenian Research & Development Institute and editor for New Defense Order. Strategy magazine, Thinker AGBU Project Lead

Dr. of Economics, Professor of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations MGIMO University

Professor, Doctor of Economics, Head of the Economics Department at the CIS Institute, Leading Research Fellow at the RAS Institute of Economics

PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and Sociology of Political Processes, Faculty of Sociology, MSU

PhD in Political Science, Deputy Director for Academic Work under the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC member

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

PhD in Political Science, Philology Faculty of Petersburg Institute of Judaic Studies

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

President, Synergia Foundation