Experts

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

Andrei Kelin, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, RIAC Member

Research Fellow, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Senior Research Fellow, Center for Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Honorary President of the Non-Governmental Organization "Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation", Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC member

PhD in Political Science, Professor at the Faculty of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

Professor of Higher Education at the University of Oxford, Director of the ESRC/OFSRE Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE), Editor-in-Chief of Higher Education, Professorial Associate of the Melbourne Centre for Study of Higher Education at the University of Melbourne, and Lead Researcher at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow

Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at HSE University, RIAC member

Founder of the SIKHA Foundation, lecturer at the Tbilisi State University

Expert at the Middle East Institute

MA student, National Research University – Higher School of Economics

PhD in History, Visiting Researcher at Hosai University, Honorable Professor of Yamanashi University (Japan)

Vice Admiral, United States Coast Guard (retired)

Chairman, Supervisory Board, Centre for Strategic and Foreign Policy Studies (Belarus)

Doctor of Political Science, Director, Head of the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

Correspondent, Expert magazine, Research fellow of the RAS U.S. and Canadian Studies Institute

PhD (Political Science), Senior Research Fellow, RAS Institute for Latin American Studies

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University

Director of International and Geo-Political Studies at the Bahrain Center for Strategic, International and Energy Studies (Derasat), affiliated associate professor of economics at George Mason University, USA

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Economic Relations and External Economic Links, MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Independent expert

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Far East Institute's Vietnam-ASEAN Research Centre under Russia's Science Academy

Ph.D. (Hist.), Senior Research Fellow, Research Fellow of the Center for Development and Security Studies, Faculty of World Politics, Moscow State University