Experts

First Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Migration Service

Senior Expert, Center for Military and Political Studies, MGIMO MFA

Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Karnataka

PhD, Professor, Senior Researcher of the Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences

Editor-in-Chief of Russia Today TV channel, editor-in-chief of international news agency "Rossiya Segodnya"

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

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

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor at IR Department, Far Eastern Federal University, Adjunct Professor at the North-East Asia Research Center, Jilin University, China

Doctor of Economics, Professor, Department of International Economic Relations and Foreign Economic Relations, MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, Leading Research Fellow, Center for Korean Studies, Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Ph.D., Leading Expert, Military-Political Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO)

Co-Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former U.S. Senator, United States

President and CEO of Vegarus Group Africa Business Initiative, Eurasian Economic Cooperation organization, CEO of the International Coordination Council of Alumni (INCORVUZ) FISU Executive Committee Member

PhD in History, Deputy Dean of the MGIMO University

Head of Trade Policy Department of Russian APEC Study Centre at RANEPA

Deputy Director General at ‘Vestnik Kavkaza’, Information & Analytics Agency

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

Political commentator, researcher and expert on Middle East affairs. President of the Moscow-based International Middle Eastern Studies Club (IMESClub)

Ph.D. in Political Science, Director of the Civil Diplomacy Fund, Ukraine

Д.и.н., Doctor of History, Professor, Department of Oriental Studies, MGIMO University

Center for South-East Asia, Australia and Oceania Studies, RAS Institute for Oriental Studies

Honorary President of the Institute for African Studies of the RAS, RAS Full Member, RIAC Member

PhD in political science

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

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

Ph.D. in Political Science, Program Manager and Website Editor at the Russian International Affairs Council

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

PhD, Post-doctoral Research Fellow WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Research Fellow Cambridge Central Asia Forum

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, Department of Applied International Analysis, MGIMO University