Experts

Member of the Scientific Council, Chairman of the Religion, Society, and Security Program at the Carnegie Moscow Center

Doctor of History, Head of Center for the Middle East Studies of the IMEMO, Professor of the Oriental Studies Department of the MGIMO University, Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Arab and Islamic Studies of the Institute of Oriental Studiesof the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Member

PhD in Political Science, Senior Lecturer, School of International Relations, Saint Petersburg State University

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

Research Fellow, Center for Social and Political Studies, IDIP RFTA

Executive Director for International Affairs at the Körber-Stiftung

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

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

Researcher, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses

Vice Chairman - Foreign Relations, Karachi Council on Foreign Relations

Independent journalist and researcher

New Delhi based Journalist & Eurasia Analyst

Member of the Union of Journalists and the Union of Russian Writers, Senior Editor, Strategy of Russia magazine

Director of EPPEN Institute & Instructor at Department of Eurasian Studies, Middle East Technical University, Ankara

PhD in History, Leading Researcher at RAS Institute for African Studies

President of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (1998–2004)

PhD candidate at Haifa University’s School of Political Sciences

Rector of the Far Eastern Federal University (2012–2016), RIAC member.

Deputy Director, Institute of Scientific Information on Social Sciences, of the Russian Academy of Sciences, President of the Association for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation

PhD in History, Caucasus Problems and Regional Security Center at the MGIMO University

Ph.D. in Economics, School of Management, St. Petersburg State University

PhD in Economics

Dual Master in International Public Management (Sciences Po Paris) and International Security (MGIMO), RIAC Expert

Vice President of the Russian International Affairs Council, Executive Vice President of Sistema JSFC

Editor of Russian Information Agency “Novosti” (RIANOVOSTI)

Head, Center for Economic Integration, IDIP RFTA, Research Fellow, Institute for International Economics and Finance, RFTA

Dr. of Political Science, Chief Research Fellow at the Centre for Russian–Chinese Relations Studies and Forecasting of the Institute of Far
Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RIAC Expert

Doctor of History, Professor, Head of the Black Sea-Mediterranean Research Center of the RAS Instute of Europe

PhD in Law, Political Scientist