Experts

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

Independent Expert

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

PhD, Tenured Professor, Member of the HSE Academic Council, Academic Supervisor, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, HSE University

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

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

PhD in History, Head of Israel Department at RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

PhD Professor, University of the Philippines (ret.), Executive Director, Center for Political and Democratic Reforms, Inc.

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

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

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

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

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

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

Research Fellow at the Sino-Russian Research Center for the Digital Economy at Lomonosov Moscow State University

Doctor of Historical Sciences. Deputy Director of the Foreign Policy Planning Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Professor at the Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University

M.A. Candidate, International Economics and Energy, Resources & Environment, Johns Hopkins University

Ph.D in History, Professor of MGIMO University, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary

Emeritus Professor, The University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

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

Postgraduate at International and European Law Department, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University