Experts

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Masters of Arts candidate at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies

PhD, Foundation Fellow in the Australian Studies Institute at Australian National University

PhD in Economics, Leading Researcher at Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

PhD candidate at the School of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University

Doctor of Economics, Head of Department of Economic Research, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Director of the Moscow School of Economics at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Full Member

Director of Research and Information Centre, Intergovernmental Water Management Coordination Commission for Central Asia, Member of the World Water Council

Doctor of Economics, Senior Research Fellow and Professor at the Department of World Economy and World Finance, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

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

LLM Public International Law — International Environmental and Energy Law, NRU HSE

Former Deputy Foreign Minister of Mexico and Founding President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations - COMEXI

Head of the Mongolia Unit, Senior Researcher at the Korea and Mongolia Division, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

Program Manager at the Russian International Affairs Council

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences

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

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Commentator for International Affairs under the Editor-in-Chief of Nezavisimaya Gazeta

Independent Analyst

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

Graduate Student at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Bachelor of Foreign Regional Studies (East Asia Regional Studies: Economy and Politics (China)), Institute of Business Studies, RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation

PhD in Political Science, Director of the Centre for Science Diplomacy and Advanced Academic Initiatives, Institute for International Studies of MGIMO University

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

RAS Institute of Economics

President of Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, RIAC member

PHD Scholar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India