Experts

Ph.D., Senior researcher at IMEMO, Russian Academy of sciences

President, Synergia Foundation

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Aide to the President of the Russian Federation

Institute of Oriental Studies

Dr. of Geography, Professor of Economics, Head of the Center for Northern and Arctic Economies

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Director Emeritus of the RAS Institute of Europe, RAS Full Member

Program Coordinator and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

Independent journalist

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

Editor-in-Chief, Nueva Sociedad, Argentina

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

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

PhD in Political Science, Political Theory Department of the MGIMO University

Coordinator at the Reanimation Package of Reforms initiative, Ukraine

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

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

Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia, MGIMO-University

University of San-Francisco, Professor of International Relations

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Ph.D. in History, Research affiliate at the Ukrainian Research Institute (Harvard University) and the Center for International and European Studies, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Deputy Director, Analytical Center Observo, French-Russian Chamber of Commerce

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

PhD in Philosophy, Senior Lecturer at the HSE University

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

Consultant at PIR-Center for Policy Studies

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

Research Fellow at the Center for International Security, Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, co-founder of the Vatfor project