Experts

PhD in politics, senior researcher at the Centre for British Studies at the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, expert at the RIAC

PhD in History, Post-Soviet Studies Center at the MGIMO University

President, Society of Caucasian Studies Experts

Director of Inter-ethnic relations Department of Ministry of Regional Development of Russia

Master of Asian and African Studies, Socio-Economic and Political Development of Modern Asia programme, Higher School of Economics; Project Manager, Alliance Media Strategy

Diplomat, scholar in Asian Studies (at the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University) and an expert on Thailand

Deputy Director of the Institute of Far Eastern Studies (IFES) Russian Academy of Sciences

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor at the Higher School of Economics

Expert at the Institute of the Middle East, graduate of International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy at MGIMO

Researcher at Energy and Security Center, Eugeny Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations

Vice Chair, Nuclear Threat Initiative; and former Secretary of State for Defence, United Kingdom

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Vice-president

Ph.D., Research Fellow:Faculty of World Economy and International Affairs at the Centre for Comprehensive European and International Studies (CCEIS), HSE University

McDonnell & Partners, Former BBC Moscow Correspondent

PhD, Deputy Head, Institute of History and International Relations Saratov State University

Foreign Policy Analyst, Assistant researcher, Forum on Geopolitics, University of Cambridge

MENA Program Director, International Crisis Group (ICG)

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Center for Human Demography and Ecology, RAS Institute of Economic Forecasting

Ph.D. in Political studies, Middle East expert and Russian foreign policy analyst, MA Global Public Policy, Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota

Doctor of History, RAS Institute for Far Eastern Studies, member of the Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning

PhD in History, Associate Professor, Department of Post-Soviet Countries, Russian State University for the Humanities, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Post-Soviet and Interregional Studies

PhD in Political Science

Lead researcher and head of the Peace and Conflict Studies Unit at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow