Experts

PhD Candidate, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, RAS

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Senior Researcher at the ‘Russia, China, World’ Centre of the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IKSA RAS), Head of the Commission for the Creation and Activities of Regional Branches, Member of the Central Board of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Society (ORKD)

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

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Member

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; Chair of the Board of Trustees and Directors of the European Leadership Network; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Ph.D. in Political Science, Head of the Informational Security Problems Department of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the Academy of Military Science of the Russian Federation

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

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

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

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (2012–2016)

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

MSc, MGIMO University, field of study International Economic Law

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

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

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

PhD in History, Professor at Chair of Theory and History of International Relations, Boris Yeltsin Urals Federal University

President, Chairman of the Board of Sberbank of Russia

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Researcher at Ankara based think-tank International Strategic Research Organization (USAK)