Andrei Melville (Chair) – PhD; Professor; Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences; Dean, Department of Comparative Politics at National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Andrey Kortunov – PhD, President of the ANO NDT, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council.

Vladimir Kiselev – PhD, Head of the Interdepartmental Analytical Center

Elena Danilova – PhD; Head, Department of Theoretical Analysis of the social transformations at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Sergey Basov – PhD, Head of the scientific-methodical department of the Russian National Library, a member of the Board of the Russian Library Association.

Lyubov Babaytseva - independent expert in the field of social development of the territories.

Ivan Timofeev - PhD, Program Director of the Russian International Affairs Council