Experten

Researcher in International Public Policy and South Caucasus Security; Head of Research, Caucasus Policy Analysis Center

General Director of the International Institute of the Development of Science Cooperation (MIRNAS). Graduated from the faculty of foreign languages of the Kyiv State Linguistic University. From 2011 to 2014, General Director of the Turkish-Russian Cultural Center, Moscow. Since 2014, General Director of the International Institute for the development of Science Cooperation in Moscow; Expert of Russian-Turkish relations; Founder of the International meeting of Russian and Turkish intellectuals.

Senior Economist, Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw)

Senior Fellow, Carnegie Moscow Center, Editor-in-chief carnegie.ru

Director, European Policy Institute, Sofia; Senior Research Fellow, Center of Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, University of North Carolina

Freier Publizist, Diplomatiegeschichte-Forscher

stv. Direktor, Europa-Institut, Russische Akademie der Wissenschaften (RAN); Direktor, Zentrum für Deutschlandforschungen und Leiter der Abteilung für Länder und Regionen, Europa-Institut der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (RAN)

Forscher, Hudson Institute; Fulbright Public Policy Fellow und Fox International Fellow

Associate Professor, Department of Applied Analysis, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Moscow; Senior Research Fellow, Post-Soviet Studies Center, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Moscow

Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor für international Beziehungen an der Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Researcher at the Institute for Political Sciences, Giessen University, Germany; Associated Expert at the economic think-tank Expert-Grup, Moldova

Founder and President of the Conflict Prevention and Early Warning Center Bucharest

Program manager, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

Wissenschaftlicher Direktor des Institutes für Sicherheitspolitik (ISP)

Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Vienna; International Institute for Peace (IIP); Chair of the Advisory Committee for Strategy and Security Policy of the Scientific Commission at the Austrian Armed Forces; various Fulbright Fellowships and the Austrian Chair at Stanford University; former Austrian Marshall Plan Foundation Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University in Washington DC; Editor (together with Mitra Shahmoradi) of the book Iran in the International System: Iran between Great Powers and Great Ideas (Routledge, January 2020)

Professor, Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service; Shelby Cullom and Kathryn W. Davis Senior Fellow for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security, Council on Foreign Relations

Vasif Huseynov studied International Relations, Political Economy, and Political Science in Baku, Kassel, and Göttingen. Since 2018, he has been a Research Fellow at the Centre for Strategic Studies, Lecturer in Politics at the Khazar University at Baku, and Senior Advisor at the Center of Analysis of International Relations. His articles have appeared in, among other outlets, Caucasus International, CES Working Papers, and Eastern Journal of European Studies. Author of the book Geopolitical Rivalries in the ‘Common Neighborhood’: Russia’s Conflict with the West, Soft Power, and Neoclassical Realism.

Dozent an der Fakultät für Soziologie und Recht, Nationale Technische Universität der Ukraine (KPI)

Head of Caucasus Institute, Yerevan, Armenia

Board Member of the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center), Baku, Azerbaijan. She holds PhD on Political Sciences from the University of Vienna, Austria. Her expertise includes security issues, i.e. international and regional security, conflict resolution, international mediation, energy security. From 2001-2016 she worked in Azerbaijan foreign service, including two diplomatic postings in Azerbaijani Mission to the OSCE (Vienna) and Azerbaijani Mission to the United Nations (New York). In 2014 she was a Visiting Scholar in Harriman Institute, Columbia University. She has authored numerous publications, including a book Conflict Resolution in South Caucasus: Challenges to International Efforts, published by Lexington Books in 2015.

Dr. Vali Kouzehgar Kaleji holds a Ph. D. in Regional Studies, Central Asia and Caucasian Studies from the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the University of Tehran. He is a Researcher at the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) in Tehran. Dr. Kaleji is author of research and policy papers on Central Asia and the Caucasus. Among his publications are The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO): Goals, Functions and Perspectives (2010), South Caucasus as a Regional Security Complex, foreword by Shirin Akiner (2014), Iran, Russia and China in Central Asia, Cooperation and Conflict with US Foreign Policy in Central Asia, Foreword by Sergey Markedonov (2015) and US Foreign Policy in Central Asia: Process and Perspectives by International Studies of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (IPIS), Tehran, Iran (2016).

Associate Professor, Institute of International Relations, Taras Shevchenko National University, Kyiv, Ukraine

Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst; Russian International Affairs Council expert; Research Fellow, Eurasian Strategies

Co-chair Regional Stability in the South Caucasus Study Group (RSSC SG) https://www.pfp-consortium.org/index.php/activities/regional-security-in-the-south-caucasus

Lehrbeauftragte für Politikwissenschaften, Sicherheitspolitik und Stabsdienst am Institut für Offiziersweiterbildung an der Theresianischen Militärakademie in Wiener Neustadt. Autor des Buches Die Neue Seidenstraße – Geopolitik und Macht (Südwestdeutscher Verlag, 2016)

Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, BIRN

Professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor of St. Petersburg State University

Senior Advisor, Flint Global, London; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Washington DC; Secretary of State for European Affairs of the Portuguese Republic (2013-2015). Author of The Dawn of Eurasia (2018), Belt and Road. A Chinese World Order (2019), History Has Begun. The Birth of a New America (2020)

Ruslan Mamedov, MENA Program Manager, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

Adlan Margoev, Analyst at the Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University, Russia. Works on Iran and nuclear nonproliferation-related issues.

Leading Researcher, Euro-Atlantic Security Center, Moscow State Institute for International Studies (MGIMO-University), Expert, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC)

James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities am Bard College und Distinguished Fellow am Hudson Institute

Dzianis Melyantsou is the coordinator of Belarus’s Foreign Policy Programme of the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations.

Researcher, Caucasus Institute

Head of the Eastern Europe and Eurasia Programme, Istituto Affari Internazionali

Adjunct Associate Research Scholar, Arnold A. Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies

University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of the Harvard's Kennedy School of Government

Executive Director, Political Science Association of Armenia; Founder and Chairman, Center for Political and Economic Strategic Studies

Director of the Minsk Dialogue Council on International Relations

Alexey Prikhodchenko, MSc, MA of MGIMO University, Russia. His research focuses on Chinese politics and international relations.

Associate Professor at St. Petersburg State University, Jean Monnet Chair since 2011

Professor of Russian and European Politics, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Kent

Deputy editor of carnegie.ru, Carnegie Mosocw Center

Georgian Institute of Public Affairs; non-resident senior fellow of the Partnership for Social Initiatives (PSI)

Belarusian political analyst, founder of Sense Analytics, a consultancy agency that provides comprehensive political analysis on Belarus. Contributor for TUT.BY and Carnegie Moscow Center

Center for Economic Research, Armenian State University of Economics

Senior Research Associate, Clingendael Institute

Senior Research Fellow, Institute of International Research, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO-University), Moscow

Director, Carnegie Moscow Center. Author of Russia (2019), What Is Russia Up To in the Middle East? (2017), Should We Fear Russia? (2016), Post-Imperium. A Eurasian Story (2011)

Freier Journalist für deutschsprachige Medien in Kiew, Ukraine

Head of Foreign and Security Policy Department of the Centre for Strategic Research, Head of Department of Strategic Assessment, Centre for Situation Analysis, Russian Academy of Sciences

Azerbaijani political scientist. His professional interests include the study of political and economic processes in the Caucasus region, the Caspian Sea and Central and Western Asia. In 2009 he founded the "South Caucasus" club of political scientists based in Baku. In 2009-2014, he was an expert of a number of international organizations involved in peacekeeping activities, members of EPNK (European Partnership for Nagorno Karabakh). He is the author of a number of books on conflict management, regional geopolitics, and economics and also hundreds of articles in various scientific and popular science journals in Europe and Asia.

Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government

Founder and President, Center for China and Globalization (CCG)

Professor, Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences; Associate Professor, State University Higher School of Economics (SU HSE)