Experts

Ph.D, heads the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Research Division at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) in Berlin

Journalist for The New York Observer, Founder/Director of Deepcor Media Former communications director of the Himalayan Consensus - an NGO based in Kathmandu, Nepal

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Ambassador, Senior fellow and distinguished chair in Diplomacy and Security at the RAND Corporation

A.B. Political Science, University of Chicago, MA candidate at the University of Western Australia

Ph.D. in diplomatic history, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program

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

PhD in Hystory, Assistant Professor of MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

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

RIEAS Senior advisor based in Athens, Greece and Associate at the Centre for Strategic Studies, University of Jordan

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Program Coordinator at the Russian International Affairs Council

Doctor of Political Science, Director of the Centre for Comparative Governance Studies, Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, HSE Campus in St. Petersburg

Member of the Committee on defense and security of The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC member.

Political observer

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

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

PhD, Adjunct Lecturer, American University of Armenia

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

Tutor of business, law and social sciences at Kaplan International College, Affiliated Faculty at University College London

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Doctor of Science, Professor, Head of the Department of European law, MGIMO-University

Candidate of Political Sciences, European Integration Faculty, MGIMO-University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Director of the Emerging Technologies and Global Security Project at PIR-Center

PhD, Institute of Asian and African Studies

Independent Expert