President of Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Economics), Professor

General Director of Zarubezhneft JSC

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Energy

Distinguished Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Dean of the Faculty of International Energy Business of the Gubkin University, Head of the Department of Strategic Management of the Fuel and Energy Complex; Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Economics), Professor

Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Federal Chancellor of Austria (2000–2007), member of the Board of DER – Dialog–Europe–Russia

Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies, Bulgaria

Director of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics)

Finnish diplomat

Head of the Research Department, Leibniz Institute Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (PRIF)

Executive Vice President of the Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI) and Professor of International Relations at Bocconi University

Rector of MGIMO University, Full Member of Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (Politics), Professor

Chair, Center for International Security and Strategy, Tsinghua University

Director of the Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States

Director General, The Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA)

Director of the Institute of International Studies, Tsinghua University

Director of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI)

Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, D.Sc.  (History), Professor

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Director of French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali and Honorary Professor at the University of Tübingen

Head of Department for European Political Studies of the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations, D.Sc. (Politics)

Ambassador of the European Union to the Russian Federation

Member of Board of Directors of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations

President of the Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi

Political Adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India

Head of Group on South Asia and Indian Ocean of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Cand. Sc. (History)

Head of the Center for Indian Studies, Member of the Academic Council of the Institute of Oriental Studies; Cand. Sc. (History)

Academic  Director of  the  Institute  of  Oriental  Studies; Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (History), Professor

Founder and Executive Chairman of the Beirut Institute

President of the U.S. / Middle East Project

Policy fellow with the Middle East and North Africa programme at the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

Senior Researcher of the Center for Middle East Studies of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Cand. Sc. (Politics)

Head of the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of  Oriental  Studies; Cand. Sc. (History)

Chairman of the Executive Committee – CIS Executive Secretary

Director of the Institute for Strategic and Interregional Studies under the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan

Chairman of the Agency for Strategic Planning and Reforms of the Republic of Kazakhstan

Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi

Deputy Director for Scientific Work of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations, D.Sc.(Economics)

Head of the Center for Middle East Studies of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; D.Sc. (History), Professor

Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation

Distinguished Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations

Academic Director of the Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN), Full Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, D.Sc. (History), Professor

Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Naval Analysis in Arlington, Virginia

Claire Tow Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of The Harriman Institute for the Study of Russia, Eurasia and Eastern Europe

Head of the Center for North American Studies of the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations; Cand. Sc. (Politics)

President of the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI)