Experts

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

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

Lecturer in Law at University of Aberdeen, Legal Adviser to the IFC Russia Renewable Energy Program

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

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

Ph.D. in History

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

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

PhD in History, Senior Researcher in the RAS Institute of African Studies

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

PhD in Political Science, Senior Teacher at the Department of European Studies, Saint Petersburg State University

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior research fellow at MGIMO Institute for International Studies, Center for Euroasian Studies

Ph.D. (Political Science), Director of the ASEAN Centre, Associate Professor at the Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO-University

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Head of Research, The European Geopolitical Forum

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

PhD, Applied Policy Research Institute of Armenia (APRI Armenia)

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Independent journalist and researcher

Professor of World Economy and International Affairs Department at Higher School of Economics, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)

Doctor of History, Professor, Dean of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Doctor of Political Science, Chief research fellow, Center of International Security, Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO)

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Senior Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, IDIP RFTA; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Center for APEC Studies, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Foreign Relations Department at St. Petersburg State University

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation in the Italian Republic and in the Republic of San Marino

North European and Baltic Studies Center at the MGIMO University

Ph.D. (History), Head of the Department of Ethno-Political Conflict at the Institute of Europe under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chair of the Board, Africa Business Initiative

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia