Experts

Director of the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IE RAS), RAS Corresponding Member, RIAC member

Former Ambassador for Oceans and Fisheries, U.S. Department of State

Senior Lecturer at the Department of Social Sciences, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Research Fellow at the Center of Arab and Islamic Studies, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC expert

Research Fellow, European Leadership Network

PhD in Engineering, Senior Research Fellow, Head of the CIS Institute Department of Eurasian Integration and SCO Development

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation, RIAC Member

Dr. of Political Sciences, Head of Black Sea and Mediterranean Studies Centre, Institute of Europe, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor, Higher School of Economics National Research University (HSE University)

PhD in Political Science, RIAC Expert

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Dr. of Political Science, Director Research Center, Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences; Professor at the Faculty of World Politics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

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

PhD in Politics, Center for Domestic Policy Research at RAS Institute for the U.S. and Canadian Studies, RIAC Expert

RIAC Expert, Moscow State Institute for International Relations

Independent Analyst

Senior Analyst of the Centre for Crisis Society Studies, Expert of the Middle East Institute, RIAC

Department of Strategic Management of Fuel and Energy Sector, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas

PhD in Economics, Associate Professor of the World Economy Department, Academic Head of the World Economy Undergraduate Program at HSE- University, RIAC expert

Doctor of History, Head of the Afghanistan Sector of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies, Professor

Editor in chief, PIRC

Doctor of History, Head of the Department of Oriental Studies of the MGIMO University

PhD in Law, Senior Research Fellow, IMEMO RAN, RIAC expert

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

Director of the Institute of Russian, Eastern European and Central Asian Studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Vice President of the Council on Strategic Interaction between China and Russia at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

Senior researcher, IFES, Russian Academy of Sciences

Senior Researcher, Institute for International Studies, MGIMO University; PIR Centre consultant; RIAC expert

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

Assistant Professor at the Odintsovo branch, MGIMO University, RIAC Expert

Independent journalist

Professor at Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, and leading expert at the National Energy Security Fund

Analyst on Russia and its Middle East policy, MPhil International Relations, University of Cambridge, RIAC expert

Ph.D. in History, Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham (Malaysia), RIAC expert

Director, HSE Institute for Educational Studies, RIAC Expert

Ambassador (rtd), President, Munich Security Conference Foundation; and former State Secretary, German Federal Foreign Office, Germany