Experts

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

Retired Councellor RF Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

Rector of Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) of the RF MFA, RAS Full Member, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation

PhD in Economics, Independent expert

PhD in Economics, Head of Department of Assessment and Coordination of International and Duel Master's Degree Programs, MGIMO-University, MFA of Russia

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

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University

Political Scientist, Coordinator of Kyrgyzstan Analytical Club

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

PhD, Associate Professor, Deputy Director, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO-University

Ph.D. (History), Leading Research Fellow, Institute for Advanced Strategic Studies, HSE University

Junior Research Fellow, Center for Post-Soviet Studies, Institute of Economics, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

PhD in Political Science, Department of International Issues Applied Analysis of the MGIMO University

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Doctor of History, professor, RAS Full Member, Head of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology of the Peoples of the Far-East, Far-Eastern Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation

Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Institute of Current International Affairs, Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

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

Independent journalist

Postgraduate at RAS Institute of World Economy and International Relations

General Director, International Institute for the Development of Scientific Cooperation (MIRNaS)

PhD in Political Science, Senior Research Fellow at Center for Global Issues, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO–University

RIAC Vice-President, President of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Demography, HSE

Research Analyst, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme The International Institute for Strategic Studies

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations