Experts

Ph.D. in History, Head of India Studies at the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, Senior Research Fellow at RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Ph.D. in Political Science, President World Security Network, Berlin

Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Studies (Azerbaijan)

Independent Analyst

Deputy Dean of the Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs, Higher School of Economics

Research Fellow at the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations under the Russian Academy of Sciences

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, former Chairman of the National Security Council of Georgia

PhD in Pedagogy, Head of Methodic Department at Russian National Library, Board Member of Russian Library Association

Ph.D. candidate in Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

PhD in Technical Sciences, retired Major General

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

RF state counselor, 1st class, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

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

PhD in History, Associate Professor at Chernyshevsky National Research Saratov State University

Ph.D. in Philology, Rector of Moscow State Linguistic University, RIAC Member

PhD (History), Leading Researcher, Head, Center for Tropical Africa Studies, Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D. in Political Sciences, Research Fellow, Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS) at the Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Ambassador, Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, Mexican Sherpa to the G20

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

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

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member.

Independent journalist

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

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