Experts

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

PhD in History, independent journalist

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

PhD in Physics and Mathematics, Senior Research Associate, Institute of Demography at the Higher School of Economics

Professor of International Politics, Tufts University

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

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

Subject Matter Expert on Islamic Extremism, and cultures, tribes, and sects of the Middle East and Central Asia, Cultural Intelligence Consultant for a private U.S. firm

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in History, Research Associate, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies at the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Ph.D. in History, Academic Director of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC Member

PhD in History, Director of the TSU Confucius Institute, Associate Professor, Department of World Politics, Faculty of Historical and Political Studies, Tomsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center

Senior research fellow at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Director for Europe and Central Asia, International Crisis Group

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

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

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

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

Doctor of International Law, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, Deputy Director General of the International Information Agency "Rossiya Segodnya", RIAC Member

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Research Fellow at the Center for Trade and Economic Integration at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, former Philippine Ambassador to the WTO in Geneva

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