Experts

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

Senior research fellow in the Institute of European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies, Carleton University, Canada

CEO & President of The EastWest Institute

Doctor of Sciences (Economics), professor, RIAC Member

Independent expert

Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor at the Department of World Politics, Faculty of International Relations, Director of World Politics Master’s Program, St. Petersburg State University

MA, Higher School of Economics and blogger

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

Independent Analyst

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Etalon Group

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

PhD in Economics Vice Dean of International Journalism Department; Associate Professor, Department of the World Economy, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

President of the North-Eastern Federal University, RIAC Member

Ph.D. in History, Senior Researcher at the Department of Central and Eastern European Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Former Foreign Secretary, Government of India

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Global Vice President, EastWest Institute

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

Chair of the Iran Section, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Associate Professor at the Department of World Economy, MGIMO University

PhD, Senior Lecturer in Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics, Deputy Director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Center, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

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

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

PhD Student, East Asian Studies, University of Cambridge

Associate Professor of International Relations (ret.), University of Cyprus

Expert on Afghanistan and Central Asian Countries

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

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

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, Head of Chair, Cybernetics and Information Security Department, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (National Research Nuclear University)