Experts

Doctor of Political Science, Senior Researcher at the Analytical Centre of Institute of International Studies, MGIMO University

Independent Expert

Senior Research Associate at the Strategic Vision Institute (Pakistan)

Deputy General Director, Head of the Analytical Department Information Analysis Centre, Moscow State University

PhD in Political Science, Associate Professor, Political Science Department, Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation

Lecturer at the Department of Comparative Politics, PhD student at MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Commodore, Former Strategy Director in the British Embassy in Afghanistan, author of Strategy for Action: Using Force Wisely in the 21st Century

Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Chairman of Board of Trustees of RIAC

Member of the Federation Council Committee of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on International Affairs

Editor-in-Chief of the Arsenal of the Fatherland magazine

Head of Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo), RIAC Member

Political scientist, Chairman of the Georgian Economic Forum

Ambassador, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly (1996-1998)

Director, Institute for the Development of Integration Processes at the Russian Foreign Trade Academy of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation; Senior Research Fellow, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre on Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, RIAC Visiting Research Fellow

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Federal Republic of Germany, RIAC Member

Rector of the Lomonosov Moscow State University, RAS Vice-President, RAS Full Member

Ph.D. in Engineering Science, Postdoctoral researcher, International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

PhD., HSE Professor

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

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

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

Academician, Doctor of Economic Sciences, First Deputy Director, IMEMO RAN

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Senior researcher at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, the Institute of Oriental Studies, RAS, associate professor at People’s Friendship University of Russia

PhD in Political Science, Andrew Derbenev is a Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, and an Associate Professor in Moscow State Pedagogical University

Ph.D in Economics, Associate Professor at the Diplomacy Department of MGIMO under the MFA of Russia

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