Experts

Major General, Strategic Advisor, Synergia Foundation

Leading research worker with the Center for Global Problems at the Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University, professor of linguistic semantics at Moscow State Linguistic University

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

PhD in Political Science, head of the post-Soviet countries’ economic development section at the Institute of Economics, RAS

Doctor of Economics, Professor of Oriental Studies, Director of the Asian strategy center at the Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Founder and Head of CREON Group, RIAC Member

D.Sc. (politics), Professor, North (Arctic) Federal University

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

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

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

President of the International Foreign Policy Association, Chairman of the Global Council of Foreign Ministers of Foreign Affairs, President of the Alumni Association of MGIMO-University; Viktor Blazheev — Rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law Academy, RIAC Member

Doctor of Political Sciences, Head of Center of Socio-Political Studies ISKRAN

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge

Professor, Fudan University, Beijing Club for International Dialogue, Senior Fellow

PhD in Political Science; Associate Professor of the Department of Integration Processes, Senior Researcher at IMI MGIMO; Senior Researcher at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Political Science, Research Centre for International and Regional Politics (Saint-Petersburg), Project Coordinator, Euroacademy (Tallinn), professor

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

Ph. D., Associate Professor of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

PhD in Economics, Independent expert