Experts

D.Sc. (Philosophy), professor, Head of the Chair of Political Governance, Political Science Department, St. Petersburg State University

President of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Visiting Lecturer at the HSE University, RANEPA University and MGIMO University

Doctor of History, Professor, Chief Researcher at the RAS Institute of African Studies

Geopolitical Analyst and Commentator

Ph.D. in History

President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Lecturer at the Saint Petersburg State University

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

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

PhD in Political Science, research fellow at Centre for the Study of Middle East of Institute of Oriental Studies of RAS

Research Fellow, Center for Military and Political Research, RAS Institute of U.S. and Canadian Studies

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Ambassador of the Republic of India to the Russian Federation

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

Member of the PIR Center Community, independent analyst

Doctor of Political Science, Deputy Director of the RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in Politics, Head of the Centre for Analysis of Middle East Conflicts, the RAS Institute for US and Canadian Studies

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

Political scientist, independent expert on Middle East conflicts, Islamic movements and terrorist organizations

Director of Rural Infrastructure and Agro-Industry Division at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, Professor

PhD in History, Theology Department, Urals State Mining University

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Independent researcher, lecturer at Dostoevsky Omsk State University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Research Fellow, IMEMO RAS

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

Observer, International Affairs monthly

Doctor of History, Leading Expert in the MGIMO ASEAN Centre

MA, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University

Ph. D., Special Research Fellow of the Institute of International and Strategic Studies of Peking University

Ph.D. in Political Science, Founder, The Institute for Iran-Eurasia Studies (IRAS), Associate Professor at University of Tehran; Iranian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary; Advisor to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Doctor of Economics, Advisor to the Rector of PetrSU

Research Fellow at the Department of Modern History of Central and Southeast Europe, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

PhD in History, RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

President, Synergia Foundation

Independent expert