Experts

Chairman of PIR Center, Lieutenant-General (retired), RIAC Vice-president

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran)

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

Research Fellow, Russian Institute of Strategic Studies (RISS)

Ph.D. in History, RIAC Member

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)

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

Ph.D. in Political Science, Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Diplomatic Academy of MFA, Russia

INSOR Director for International Development

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council

Head of the Research Division, Institute of Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Secretary General of the All-China Association for the Study of Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia; Deputy Director of the “One Belt and One Road” Research Centre at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Senior Research Associate with The Jindal Schoolof International Affairs, Sonepat

Editor-in-Chief of "International Affairs" journal

Doctor of History, Professor of Russian University of Peoples’ Friendship, Institute of African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Research Director at the European Leadership Network

PhD in Geography, Head of the laboratory, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Associate Professor, Università Roma TRE

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

Academic Supervisor of Social Sciences Department at Higher School of Economics, Professor, RIAC Member.

PhD in Political Science, associate professor at the Department of World Politics, MGIMO University

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod