Experts

Doctor of Economics, Ph.D. in History, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

Researcher at the Center for Central Asian Studies of the Institute of China and Contemporary Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Lecturer in the School of International Affairs at the Higher School of Economics

Ph.D. in Technical Science, Senior Research Fellow, Center for International Security, IMEMO RAS

Special Representative of Russian President on International Cultural Cooperation. Ambassador-at-Large. RIAC member.

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

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

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

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

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

Mexico's Ambassador to the Russian Federation

Master of International Affairs (Texas A&M University, 2015)

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

PhD in History, Senior Fellow, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, RIAC member

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

PhD in Political Science, Head of the Theory of Politics Section IMEMO RAN

Research Fellow at The Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, RIAC Member, RIAC Vice-President

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Ph.D. in Economics, RIAC Member

Ph.D., Kant Institute Deputy Director, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University