Experts

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD in History, expert at the Institute of Strategic Estimates and Analysis, Assistant Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Doctor of History, Chief Researcher of the RAS Institute for European Studies

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Director of Wider Europe Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations

PhD, Head of Center for Russian-African Relations Studies at RAS Institute for African Studies

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Ph.D., Senior Fellow of The Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies at Russian Academy of Sciences

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

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

Ph.D. in History; Senior Research Fellow, Center for East Asian and Shanghai Cooperation Organisation Studies, MGIMO University under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation; Associate Professor, School of International Affairs, Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics National Research University

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

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

Doctor of Sociology, Professor of the Sociology Faculty of St. Petersburg State University

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the School of World Political Processes, research associate at the Center for Post-Soviet Studies, MGIMO University

MGIMO University

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

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Ph.D. in Economics, Director at the Center for Migration Studies; Lead Researcher, Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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

Head of the Department for Disarmament and Conflict Resolution Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of MGIMO-University, RIAC Member