Experts

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Dr. of Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Problems of Transformation of Political Systems and Cultures, World Politics Department at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Director, Center for Spatial Analysis in International Relations, MGIMO University

Junior Research Fellow at the MGIMO Institute for International Studies (IMI MGIMO)

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Freelance reporter based in Kolkata

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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 in History, Senior Research Fellow at RAS IMEMO Sector for US Foreign and Domestic Policy

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Associate Professor of Political Science in the Intelligence and National Security Studies program at Coastal Carolina University

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

PhD in Political Science, Senior researcher at CEMI RAS

Transitional – Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)

Former Defense Secretary and Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

Ph.D. in History, Full State Counsellor of the Russian Federation, 3rd class; expert on Syria, Eastern Mediterranean and the Gulf, Associate Professor of the Department of International Business at the Financial University Under the Government of the Russian Federation

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

Doctor of Political Science, professor at Saint Petersburg state university

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

Ph.D., Research Fellow, Head of the Russian Foreign Policy Research Department at the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

PhD in History, Leading Researcher, Department of Korea and Mongolia, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Applied Research Center and Russian Academy of Sciences Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Assistant Professor of the Faculty of World Politics at Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in History, Research Fellow at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University

MGIMO University, Professor; Program Director of the Valdai International Discussion Club